surgically induced childhood

English

Etymology

Coined by Walter Jackson Freeman II.

Noun

surgically induced childhood (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An infantile personality resulting from lobotomy, once thought to be an interim stage toward maturation and recovery from the original condition that lobotomy had been used to treat.
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