The other was a Spanish psychiatrist, Juan José López-Ibor, who would become the second president of the WPA in 1966. During the Franco regime, he had used ECT and lobotomy to ‘cure’ patients of homosexuality. ‘My last patient was a deviant,’ López-Ibor said at a conference in Italy, but he now ‘appears more slightly attracted to women’, even if he had ‘disorders in memory and vision’.
