Throughout the ages there have been many theories to explain functional mental disorders and many forms of treatment prescribed to help the psychotic individual return to health and peace of mind. One of the most recently developed therapies is the surgical treatment of mental disorder. Freeman and Watts describe psychosurgery as "a destructive surgical attack upon the brain in attempt to relieve distressing symptoms", and contrast it with the "passive, mysticism of psychoanalysis in its search for truth in the fundamentals of the developing personality". [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109688 |
| Date | January 1953 |
| Creators | Maclean, Mary Maxwell. |
| Contributors | (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master's of Social Work. (Department of Social Work.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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