Associations to the word «Psychosurgery»

Wiktionary

PSYCHOSURGERY, noun. (surgery) Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness.

Dictionary definition

PSYCHOSURGERY, noun. Brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope