Desperate for an effective treatment for the worst-off patients including some mentally ill World War I veterans the VA embraced lobotomy. Within a month, VA headquarters set guidelines. In the late s and early s, there existed no diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, a term that came into vogue after the Vietnam War.
Valenstein, the former VA psychiatrist. Following the introduction of antipsychotic medications in the mids lobotomy underwent a gradual but definite decline. In the early 20th century, the number of patients residing in mental hospitals increased significantly [n 2] while little in the way of effective medical treatment was available. Lobotomy, if always controversial, was also for a time part of the medical mainstream, even feted, and regarded as a legitimate if desperate remedy for categories of patients who were otherwise regarded as hopeless.
What caught my eye was this factoid. There is a tendency to believe that WWII veterans were citizen-soldiers who went, fought, and came home to resume their normal lives. The issues resulting from combat, particularly mental health issues, have always been there but are more forthrightly and publically dealt with today.
In my family, we have suspicions that the early death of one of my uncles back in the s was linked to some medical experimentation that the family never knew about.
Scott : You are absolutely correct. What everyone forgets now is that the Hells Angles started out as veterans who could simply not adjust to normal society. And that just covers hospital admissions. It was all part of the propaganda campaign to turn victory into surrender into loss. It is interesting, the promotion of the VA as the height of government, single provider, medicine. Sorry to upset your Limbaugh-based world view, but I was alive back then, my father was in Viet Nam and I was paying close attention.
Said father, a career soldier, told me when I became eligible for the draft that he would personally drive me to the Canadian border. They came very close to taking our embassy. And how we were getting near the end. That was the lesson of Tet, that we were looking at years and decades and in the end would still, eventually, go home. David Hamm : Useless, off-topic, and dumb is no way to go through life, Mr. There is a pretty good archive of media from the VietNam era available to you on that screen in front of you and you could quickly document your nasty, self-centered remark.
Or be known as a fool and a coward from this minute on. Something more or less , to this story…particularly the timing of it. If chopping apart the brains of soldiers because they were attracted to other men is not a scandal, then what is? Why get outraged over the Scottsboro Boys? Heck, that was just a product of the thinking of the time.
And Nazi medical experiments — they were just working with the attitudes of their time, too. People and organizations associated with either the creation of this book or its content.
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