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howard dully's "my lobotomy: a memoir"
this isn't a new story but Dully's is a fascinating memoir.
from npr: On Jan. 17, 1946, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. On that day, he performed the first-ever transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy in his Washington, D.C., office. Freeman believed that mental illness was related to overactive emotions, and that by cutting the brain he cut away these feelings. read it/listen to the podcast: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5014080 read his memoir: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/mylobotomy/ howard dully's blog: http://howarddully.vox.com/ |
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I saw a show on this. Apparently it was done a lot!
When I was in high school I actually wanted a lobotomy so I could be like people wanted me to be. Docile.
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Lobotomy's were done as a means to control behavior, like in the case of JFK's sister Rosemary. After her lobotomy, it rendered her totally co-dependent, and as an invalid. Very sad. Joe Kennedy was fooled by the doctor who made childish promises. But that was the "norm" back in those days.
I am sure there are cases where the surgery was/is useful, and solves the medical and or behavioral problems that is/were in question. I think they are pretty much not done any longer. |
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