psychosurgeonn.
/ˈsʌɪkə(ʊ)ˌsəːdʒ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈsaɪkoʊˌsərdʒ(ə)n/, /ˈsaɪkəˌsərdʒ(ə)n/ Surgery.
A surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery.
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1945 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 58 123 The impunity with which psychosurgeons proceed to injure the brain even for neurotic symptoms.
1952 B. Wolfe Limbo (1953) xxii. 368 The phony rapist's phony premises become the premises of the psycho-surgeon's science.
1972 Lancet 8 July 70/1 The modern psychosurgeon must be versatile enough to employ different operations for different symptom complexes.
1995 Nature 2 Feb. 381/2 In the 1970s, US psychosurgeons proposed to treat inner-city violence by amygdalectomizing ghetto militants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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