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Psychosurgery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness. countable, uncountable

    "This was studied in humans where amygdalotomies were done not to control seizures but to control aggression. Such psychosurgery provoked fiery controversy in the 1970s. And I don't mean scientists not saying hello to each other at conferences. I mean a major public shit storm."

  2. 2
    brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems wordnet

Etymology

From psycho- + surgery.

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