Episode 2 | Lobotomy
This week Amanda and Tommy discuss the practice of lobotomy. Why did they happen, how did the practice come about, and how did they fall out of favor? Learn all that and more as the hosts discuss Walter Freeman's lasting impact on psychosurgery and his revolutionary take on treating the mentally ill.
Sources:
The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai
https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html
https://storycorps.org/stories/my-lobotomy/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014576
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/us/psychiatric-illnesses-lobotomy-controversial-surgery.html
https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1112first-lobotomy/
https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/30/2/2010.10.focus10214.xml?tab_body=fulltext
