Title: Surgery for mental illness has been proved effective
Abstract: Editor–Sandra Goldbeck-Wood reports that Norway has offered compensation to all patients who have had a lobotomy in Norway in the past.1 Her article seems to leave the opponents of psychosurgery on a high moral ground. What the Norwegian fiscal administration chooses to do with presumably surplus money is its own decision, but Goldbeck-Wood's use of the word “victims” implies that patients who had a leucotomy in the past were the subjects of …