Horatio Clare

The treatment of mental illness continues to be a scandal

We have merely exchanged brutal experiments for the overprescription of dangerous drugs, with Big Pharma the chief beneficiary, says Andrew Scull

Dr Walter Freeman, Professor of Neurology at George Washington University, demonstrates his new surgical technique of ‘transorbital lobotomy’ at Western State Hospital in 1949. [Getty Images]
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  • Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness

    Andrew Scull

    Allen Lane, pp. 494, £25

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