freeman walter watts james chapter (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Black textured cloth with yellow spine lettering, impressed pub. logo to bottom back outer corner, near Fine but spine lettering quite dull. Coloured f/piece + xxviii + half-title+598 + colophon, 156 text figs, mostly photos of patients or anatomical (inc. X-rays), some of equipment and a number of charts, one pair coloured (before and after paintings by patient). Gutter between f/piece and t.p. was opening, now re-closed and sealed with thin strip of transparent archival tear repair tape, but remains a little weak, four or five pages a have two or three small faint gray spots of little consequence, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked, no tanning or indications of provenance. Greatly expanded from the 1942 1st edition and based on about 500 cases. A comprehensive account of the methods and results of pre-frontal and transorbital lobotomy. Now apparently very rare, more so than the 1st edition. A key text for fully understanding this now notorious episode in the history of psychiatry by its leading evangelical proponent, ironically published in the year Watts split from him in opposition to the cruelty of the technique. (Lobotomy and leucotomy are synonyms by the way) 16.5 cm x 26 cm.