Commentary on the Report of the Committee of Inquiry Into Psychosurgery

Lg, Kiloh

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb117677.x

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“…However, their Report concluded with an unsolicited recommendation that “the decision to perform any psychosurgical operation, including those the subject of this Report, cannot be left to the medical adviser or advisers proposing the performance of the operation” 33 . Kiloh angrily responded: “The Committee's recommendation might be taken by the most unparanoid as a near libelous slur upon the medical profession with implications of coercion of patients, inadequate selection of cases and the use of ineffective and dangerous operative procedures” 35 …”

Section: The Ministerial Committee Of Inquiry (1977)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Amygdaloid Neurosurgery for Aggressive Behaviour, Sydney, 1967–1977: Chronological Narrative

White

Williams²

2009

Australas Psychiatry

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In 1964, Professor Leslie Gordon Kiloh became acting director of the newly built neurosurgical research facility at Callan Park Mental Hospital. In 1966, he advised bilateral amygdaloidotomy for the treatment of a 16-year-old aggressive and self-harming male patient. Following major improvement in that patient's condition, a further 19 patients were treated by amygdaloid surgery. In 1974, Kiloh's team reported that 39% of the first 18 patients treated had persisting improvement but one patient sustained persisting hemiplegia. The program was suspended in 1977 by the New South Wales (NSW) Government, following allegations by a senior nurse that patients at the neurosurgical unit had been mistreated. A Ministerial Committee of Inquiry proposed that stringent legislative controls should be applied to psychosurgery. The Committee expressed reservations about amygdaloid psychosurgery in particular. Psychosurgery referrals declined after that date. Since 2007, under the revised NSW Mental Health Act, all forms of neurosurgery for psychiatric disorder are prohibited.

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Section: The Ministerial Committee Of Inquiry (1977)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…33 Kiloh angrily responded: ''The Committee's recommendation might be taken by the most unparanoid as a near libelous slur upon the medical profession with implications of coercion of patients, inadequate selection of cases and the use of ineffective and dangerous operative procedures''. 35…”

Section: The Ministerial Committee Of Inquiry (1977)mentioning

confidence: 99%