Journal of Mental Science (1947) 93: 333-341. doi: 10.1192/bjp.93.391.333
© 1947 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Contra-Indications for Leucotomy: Whom not to Leucotomize

E. L. Hutton, M.B., B.S., D.P.M., Clinical Director

Burden Neurological Institute

ABSTRACT

The occasional occurrence of undesirable traits has been recorded in the post-operative characters of certain patients treated by prefrontal leucotomy.

In this paper are given reports on three cases in whom the personality after the operation is on the whole less satisfactory than it was before, and these are compared with successful cases.

The conclusion is reached that the basic character and outstanding traits of the total personality are of greater importance for assessing the probable results of the operation than the particular type of mental disorder from which the patient is suffering