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What does psychosurgery mean?

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Noun
  1. (surgery) Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.
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But I doubt that many people would be aware that psychosurgery, or brain surgery, is being done to treat mental illness or behavioural problems today.
In the field of medicine, this was the era of neurosurgery and psychosurgery.
With the legacy of psychosurgery, it's important that we don't misrepresent things as therapy when they're not.
The new representatives of psychosurgery are very careful and strict in selecting their patients.
Legislation may ban the use of irreversible treatment procedures on children, especially psychosurgery and sterilization.
In some countries, the use of psychosurgery and electroshock on children is banned.

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