Juan José Lopez-Ibor (

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, 22 April 1906

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1991) was a Spanish psychiatrist. He studied medicine at the

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and the

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, where he obtained his doctorate in 1930. In 1932, he was awarded the chair of Legal Medicine in

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; later, the chair of Psychiatry in

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, In 1960, he succeeded Antonio Vallejo Nájera at the Chair of Psychiatry in

. In 1940, he founded Actas Españolas de Psiquiatría. From a very young age he was opposed to the

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method of

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. In the 1960s, during the

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, López-Ibor performed

lobotomies A lobotomy () or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex. The surgery causes ...

and

electroshock therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment that causes a generalized seizure by passing electrical current through the brain. ECT is often used as an intervention for mental disorders when other treatments are inadequate. Condit ...

on psychiatric patients to "cure" homosexuality. Many of the homosexual patients who came into his hands did so as a result of the 1970 Law on Social Danger and Rehabilitation, which required homosexuals and transsexuals to be "rehabilitated" using various techniques. López-Ibor used a

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as a clinic. The house had about thirty rooms, all of them with "special plugs" to connect the "electroshock", which the psychiatrist applied without the consent of the patient or the family. The magazine '' Interviú'' collected a fragment of a 1973 conference in

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where he said: "My last patient was a deviant. After an operation on the lower lobe of his brain he shows disorders in memory and eyesight, but he is slightly more attracted to women". In 1967 he founded the López Ibor Clinic in Madrid. In the same year, he was among the first to report that the drug

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was effective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. From 1966 to 1971, Juan José Lopez-Ibor was president of the

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. He was the father of Juan José López-Ibor Aliño, and grandfather of María Inés López-Ibor Alcocer. He died of Alzheimer's disease.

Work

*Neurosis de guerra (1939) *Epilepsia genuina (1941) *La angustia vital (1950) *El descubrimiento de la intimidad (1952) *El español y su complejo de inferioridad (1953) *Lecciones de Psicología médica (vol. I, 1957; vol. II, 1961) *Libro de la vida sexual (1968) *De la noche oscura a la angustia (1973) *Cómo se fabrica una bruja (1976)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez-Ibor, Juan Jose Spanish psychiatrists 1906 births 1991 deaths Complutense University of Madrid alumni University of Valencia alumni Conversion therapy practitioners Obsessive–compulsive disorder researchers