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 KathyGab rated 21 months ago- This is truly creepy. I wonder how much of what's going on now in psychiatry is the chemical equivalent of ye olde ice pick? I can't help but apply anything like this personally; I am being treated for bipolar disorder, and some of the stuff I took in the past left me somewhat the worse fo...
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- SeekExcellence rated 21 months ago
- Fascinating and often nauseating. The fact that this is historical, not fictional, is disturbing but adds huge interest. Brings up important moral deliberations and thoughts about the nature of Man's mind. No doubt this article with stick with me for a long while.
- soulwindow rated 21 months ago
- Something people should know about. Survivors of lobotomy have suffered a lot.
- baboon rated 21 months ago
- certainly not for the faint-hearted.
a true story about the dark ages of neuro-surgery.
- Whaddupwho rated 21 months ago
- Fascinating read! The history of lobotomy is quite barbaric.
- sarahbliss rated 21 months ago
- A short history of the lobotomy. Interesting, but morbid and nauseating. Twice as many women as men. Yeesh.
- obsteve rated 21 months ago
- Perhaps the scariest thing in the article is the cursory nod to the chemical cosh having replaced the lobotomy as the control method of choice
"By 1954, everybody was on drugs; psychopharmacology had hit America, and the manufacturers of the biggest-selling tranquilizer, Thorazine, could literally not make enough to slake popular thirst for the chemical."
- Lady-Chance rated 21 months ago
- Absolutely fascinating. Terrifying, in it's own way... But you have to stop and think- is the way we treat the mentally ill nowadays really that different?
- madnicity rated 21 months ago
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From the page: "The personality that was Frances Farmer had been effectively terminated earlier in the day, in a remote room to avoid publicity. She was reduced to a state of turgid, generalized mediocrity by the surgery. Society had won its battle with her; she would never again be a threat. She was released and, grown fat and slow, she drifted off into oblivion. She ended her life as a clerk in a hotel, dying of cancer in 1970. "
- jivehoneyjive rated 21 months ago
- Fascinating, chilling, and gruesomely entertaining... although no doubt this removes the majority of the individuals personality, the question remains as to in which state they are happier... is ignorance indeed bliss?
- KathyGab rated 21 months ago
- This is truly creepy. I wonder how much of what's going on now in psychiatry is the chemical equivalent of ye olde ice pick? I can't help but apply anything like this personally; I am being treated for bipolar disorder, and some of the stuff I took in the past left me somewhat the worse for wear - but out and walking around instead of hospitalized, something that might not have been the case had I lived 50 years earlier. Still, no one's taken an ice pick to me. Gods. But I wonder - what is all of this stuff I take really doing to my innards? And how much of my crummy personality is due to the drugs, and how much to simply being a jerk? I may never know.
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