Psychosurgery that has now been titled inhuman was majority performed throughout history but only recently have been eliminated. In the 1880’s doctors started performing surgery on mental ill patients in hopes to relax or cure them. Gottlieb Burckhardt was a Swiss physician who removed parts of the brain like the cortex. This procedure was mainly done with patients who suffered from schizophrenia and hallucinations. The most known psychosurgery is lobotomy. Italian surgeon Amarro Fiamberti first performed this procedure and it “involved accessing the frontal lobes through the eye sockets, which would inspire Freeman to develop the trans orbital lobotomy in 1945, a method that would not require a traditional surgeon and operating room.” This
