Frontal Lobology – Psychiatry's New Pseudoscience
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 161 (2) , 244-248
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.161.2.244
Abstract
The frontal lobes are the most evolutionarily advanced organ of the body. Here lies the seat of the highest human functions of thought, intellect, creativity, self-control and social interaction (Milner & Petrides, 1984; Lishman, 1987; Russell & Roxanas, 1990; Kolb & Wishaw, 1990). As one recent reviewer notes (Reading, 1991), it is hard to avoid ‘sounding metaphysical’ when going through such a list. It seems that, in accordance with psychiatry's own late phylogenesis, the frontal lobes have only just been discovered.Keywords
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