effectiveness

• ineffective: point

  early psychosurgery was without a doubt inappropriate and ineffective.
• ineffective - evidence

  lobotomies had a fatality rate of up to 6%, and a range of severe physical side effects such as brain seizures, and a lack of emotional responsiveness (Comer, 2002.)
• ineffective - explain

  Psychosurgery is limited in its use, for example it is rarely used for its treatment of phobias, and then only for extreme cases that have proven otherwise untreatable. Szasz (1978) criticised psychosurgery generally because a person's state of mind isn't something physical, and therefore cannot be treated with physical surgery.
• ineffective - link

  therefore, since the success rate of psychosurgery isn't 100%, it cannot said to be effective.
• effective - point

  however, advances in technology and scientific knowledge has made modern psychosurgery more effective over time.
• effective - evidence

  Research conducted by Cosgrove and Rauch (2001) found that the cingulotomy was effective in 56% of OCD patients, and the capsulotomy in 67%. In patients with a major affective disorder, cingulotomy was effective in 65%, and capsulotomy in 55%.
• effective - explain

  this means that there is a higher chance that psychosurgery patients will survive, and also be somewhat "cured" of their mental illness, without the fear of death, or being left in a vegetative state, common in early psychosurgery.
• effectiveness - link

  this means that psychosurgery can be effective if carried out with more recent techniques.