Chronic Neurosis Treated with Leucotomy

Two cases of phobic neurosis treated successfully by behaviour therapy.

The authors, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, have successfully treated two cases of phobic neurosis by simple behaviour therapy consisting of Jacobson's muscle relaxation technique and systemic desensitisation, at the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. The two patients, who were literally housebound because of the unpleasant symptoms of their illness, were able to mobilise themselve...

Stereotactic Limbic Leucotomy—A Follow-up at i6 Months

Sixty-six patients were assessed clinically, psychologically and physiologically before operation, at six weeks and at a mean of i6 months following stereotactic limbic leucotomy. Seventy-three per cent were clinically improved at six weeks and 76 per cent at i6 months. In obsessional neurosis, 89 per cent of patients showed definite clinical improvement at i6 months; in chronic anxiety, 66 per...

Prefrontal leucotomy; a review.

Introduction During the past 20 vears a number of physical methods of, treatment have been introduced-on a large scale for the alleviation of mental illness. Despite much research the successes of insulin treatrhent in schizophrenia, convulsion therapy in depressive states and prolonged narcosis in emotional disturbance still remain unexplained even to the point, of their still being empirical....

Autonomic changes after unilateral leucotomy.

Kennard (1944) has reviewed both the clinical and experimental evidence of " cortico-autonomic" interrelations. At that time she suggested that the frontal poles were autonomic centres distinct from the motor cortex but was able to adduce little evidence as to their exact role. Since Kennard's review Reitman (1945) and several subsequent authors have reported transient changes in autonomic regu...

Institutional Neurosis