The article dates this to not long after 1973. To put it into an international context, lobotomies were performed in the USA from 1936 until 1972 peeking in 19

The article dates this to not long after 1973. To put it into an international context, lobotomies were performed in the USA from 1936 until 1972 peeking in 1950 https://www.aier.org/article/how-government-prolonged-lobotomy https://www.aier.org/article/how-government-prolonged-loboto... R. D. Laing was reacting against horrifying practices. Viewing him in his historical context lets us see what drove him to be so radical.