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... it would have been out of place for me to investigate the
failure rate of a given therapy; the history of the therapy; the peak and decline of the therapy. Yes, another essay could be written on that topic--bring in the frontal lobotomy from oft-mentioned (original motion picture) "Planet of the Apes" and you've got the start of an sfnal take on psychiatric surgery!
Actually, you don't need to go to Boulle for this, Mantis ... there's lobotomy in tBotNS. Remember the zooanthropes?