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Definitions
A brain surgery once used to treat mental illness by cutting frontal lobe connections.
Word origin
From lob(e) + -otomy (a variant of -tomy (suffix denoting a surgical incision)).
Used in a sentence
“Old psychiatric hospitals are even more frightening. They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.”
“Put another way, how can we avoid an ethical lobotomy in establishing an organizational perspective?”
“In the end, as Levinson feared, the price of Charlie being accepted into normative school society is a kind of social lobotomy: he is tamed, so he is not really Charlie anymore.”
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