The Psychosurgery Debate
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Psychosurgery and the involuntarily confined.
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. Through it, in particular, we think, see, hear, and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant .... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.44.6.560