Amputated Souls

Amputated Souls explores the subject of psychiatry and psychiatric practices and the assault upon human rights and human freedom constituted by these practices, tracing the history of lobotomy, ECT and antipsychotic drugs, and their use, from 1935 to the present day.

Avainsanat: Psychiatry, psychiatric practice, human rights, freedom, mental illness, lobotomy, ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, antipsychotic drugs, psychosis, mental institutions, mental illness in film and literature, schizophrenia