Thursday, November 17, 2005

'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey

This is why I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy:
"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."

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