Compare And Contrast Lobotomy And Psychosurgery

In the Middle Ages, they could only justify abnormal behavior as being possessed by a demon or the devil, currently it's often blamed on mental illness. The thought of mental illness has changed through these numerous years. "People who go to therapy are crazy, I'm not crazy!" is a sentence many people in the United States voice. Sadly, they aren't aware how much therapy can positively impact someone's life, and how many methods of therapy have been created over the years. Some of the most known peculiar psychotherapy and psychosurgery are the Lobotomy, E.C.T, and psychotropic medication. All the these treatments are being used today some more than others.

In the early 20th century, the population in mental hospitals increased, beginning a Portuguese neuropsychiatrist named António Egas Moniz search for a brain surgery that will change a man's mind to make their behavior controllable. Before long, he created a radical surgery that will change the history of psychology forever, that surgery would be called a Lobotomy. A Lobotomy would consist of scraping away most of the connections to and from the prefrontal of the brain, and the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. This procedure would leave the patient in a vegetable state where they would forever stay. Soon, …show more content…
Some of the more frequently used medications are antidepressants such as sertraline, fluoxetine, and citalopram, 350 million people suffer from depression. Depression, is feelings of significant levels of sadness, lack of energy, low self-worth, guilt or related symptoms. There are various kinds of medications that can help mental disorders, Anxiety is another well known disorder that Psychotropic medication can help. Anxiety, is when the central nervous system’s physical and emotional reaction to a faint sense of threat or exposure to danger. Psychotropic medication, is used the most out of all