UK Psychosurgeon Guilty

Our thanks to a UK contributor for sending us the following:

Paul Kenneth Bridges Found Guilty of Sex Crimes including two counts of indecent assault on a male, and taking an indecent photograph of a child.

Paul Kenneth Bridges is one of the big names in psychosurgery in the UK and has done much to promote its use over the past 30 years. He was the consultant psychiatrist at the psychosurgical unit at the Brook Hospital in London from the early 1970s until it moved to the Maudsley Hospital in 1995. Over that period the Brook Hospital carried out far more psychosurgical
operations than any other centre in Great Britain.

For example, between 1979 and 1995 it carried out 367 operations, 73 per cent of all those done in Great Britain. He has authored, or co-authored, numerous articles about psychosurgery for example “Psychosurgery and psychosurgical techniques: the voice of experience” in the British Journal of hospital medicine in 1989;
“Psychosurgery, the Mental Health Act Commission and the Law” in the Psychiatric Bulletin in 1989; and “Psychosurgery: stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy. An indispensable treatment” in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1994.