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Prefrontal leucotomy in delinquents habitual swallowers of metal objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Milos Kobal
Milos Kobal*
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Collaborator of the Institute for Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
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Prefrontal leucotomy in delinquent persons with a certain personality disturbance is looked at with somewhat mixed feelings.

The scanty available reports seem to indicate that leucotomy is only rarely performed on delinquents and some positive results do not yet encourage its wider application.

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Première Partie: Doctrine: III — PROBLÈMES DE LA PSYCHOCHIRURGIE
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1965 , pp. 341 - 346
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Copyright © 1965 International Society for Criminology

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References

(1) The article is dedicated to the memory of the brilliant neurosurgeon Anton Cas, MD, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. He has performed the operations of the patients, mentioned in the article. His unexpected death stopped not only his spirit and hands, but also a larger program on leucotomies in the delinquents.

(2) Bouzat (Pierre) et Pinatel (Jean), Traité de droit pénal et de criminologie, Dalloz, Paris 1963, tome III, page 457.

(3) Barahona-Fernandez (H.-J.), Nervenarzt 1952, 3, pages 101-105.

(4) Sargant (W.), Slater (E.), An introduction to physical methods of treatment in psychiatry. Livingstone, Edinburgh and London 1963, pages 97-137.

(5) Hess (W.-R.), Das Zwischenhirn, Benno Schwabe, Basel 1954, pages 80-81 and 102-103.

(6) Penfield (W.), Jasper (H.), Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain, Churchill, London 1954, pages 150-154.

(7) Sargant (W.), Slater (E.), op. cit., pages 103-104.

(8) Sargant (W.), Slater (E.), op. cit., pages 124-125.