AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Other treatments included removing parts of the brain (lobotomies). The lobotomy was performed widely from the 30s to the 40s to treat schizophrenia, severe anxiety and depression.

Detailed explanation-2: -How common were lobotomies? Lobotomies were widely used from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. According to one 2013 research paper, roughly 60, 000 lobotomies were performed in the United States and Europe in the 2 decades after the procedure was invented.

Detailed explanation-3: -The use of certain treatments for mental illness changed with every medical advance. Although hydrotherapy, metrazol convulsion, and insulin shock therapy were popular in the 1930s, these methods gave way to psychotherapy in the 1940s. By the 1950s, doctors favored artificial fever therapy and electroshock therapy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frontal lobotomy was developed in the 1930s for the treatment of mental illness and to solve the pressing problem of overcrowding in mental institutions in an era when no other forms of effective treatment were available.