Adventures with an Ice Pick
Story of Walter Freeman, a man who performed several thousand ice-pick lobotomies over his career.
BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind
Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. […
Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy
Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies.
Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why.
NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey
Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He intervie…
Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital
Explores the historical background of psychosurgery and discusses the anatomic and physiologic basis for such procedures. Guidelines for the appropriate selection of surgical candi…
Psychosurgery.org
This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure.
Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery
Long article published in Brain & Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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