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Throwback to appalling treatments of yesteryear.  Wonder if lobotomies were also termed therapy.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-03-i...major.html

Barbaric. They administer a paralytic, muscle-relaxer, anesthetic, and/or sedative so it doesn't look as horrendous as it actually is (and people don't fracture or dislocate bones like they did in the 1940s).

It kind of seems like taking cyanide with a spoonful of sugar.