Clinical Observations Concerning Schizophrenic Patients Treated by Prefrontal Leukotomy

IT IS my purpose here to consider the clinical results of leukotomy in 42 patients treated by psychosurgery‡ at a Veterans Administration hospital during a two-year period — 1947 and 1948. To prepare for this I have reviewed the clinical records of these 42 patients and, within the past two weeks, have examined those who remained in the hospital. I have also gone over the social-service reports of the patients who have left the hospital and, in a few cases, have interviewed the relatives myself.I am less concerned in this report with statistics than I am with the qualitative . . .