surgically induced childhood

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Etymology

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Coined by Walter Jackson Freeman II.

Noun

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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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