Kenny Smith

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In one now notorious paragraph, he recommended a lobotomy, instead of divorce or separation, for unhappy wives: ‘A depressed woman, for instance, may owe her illness to a psychopathic husband who cannot change and will not accept treatment. Separation might be the answer, but . . . we have seen patients enabled by a leucotomy to return to the difficult environment and cope with it in a way which had hitherto been impossible.’
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
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