Walter Freeman, and the Story of the Ice-Pick Lobotomy
In the early 20th century, mental illness was a mystery. No antidepressants, no talk therapy – just a desperate hope for a cure. Enter Walter Freeman, an American doctor who bursts onto the scene in the 1930s with a radical solution: the lobotomy. But this wasn't a typical surgery. Freeman's version, the transorbital lobotomy, involved an instrument resembling an ice pick and controversial methods.
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