American psychiatry: a tortured history
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Do You Know What Lobotomy Is?
The discovery of insulin was one of the great triumphs of early early 20th century medicine. There are a lot of these things in that period all of them as sort of an attempt to cure by driven by enthusiasts who then managed to convert the profession to their way of thinking. ECT or electroshock therapies it was originally called still survives and is the only one of these treatments that still has legitimacy for reasons we don't understand. It's very controversial besides I should say so there were a whole string of these things some of which we know about.
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