https://e-sygoing.link Latest links in the Psychosurgery category en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 19:36:39 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835162-psychosurgeryorg This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:25:34 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835162 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835172-the-lobotomist-a-maverick-medical-genius-and-his-tragic-ques Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:11:36 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835172 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835167-sabbatini-rme-the-history-of-psychosurgery Long article published in Brain & Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997. Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:33:26 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835167 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835164-nobelprizeorg-controversial-psychosurgery-resulted-in-a-nobe Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:36:56 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835164 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835171-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. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast] Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:58:35 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835171 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835165-adventures-with-an-ice-pick Story of Walter Freeman, a man who performed several thousand ice-pick lobotomies over his career. Mon, 19 May 2025 06:39:09 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835165 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835169-rottencom-lobotomy Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies. Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:33:34 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835169 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835170-father-of-the-lobotomy Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman. Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:15:48 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835170 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835168-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 candidates is presented and the four most common psychosurgical procedures practiced today are described. Finally, the overall experience including indications, results and complications for each procedure is reviewed and compared. Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:49:10 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835168 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7835163-npr-my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-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 interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medical records, and talks to his dad about it. [22:49 in length, available via streaming audio or as mp3 file). Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:20:21 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7835163