Surgical interruption of nerve fibers connecting the
frontal or prefrontal areas of the cerebral cortex of the brain. Although such a
procedure may have been first performed in 1892 in Switzerland by Gottlieb
Burkhardt, Egas Moniz probably introduced
the procedure to modern medicine, winning the Nobel Prize for his work.
Walter
Freeman probably introduced the procedure to the U.S.
Also: frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, prefrontal
lobotomy, transorbital ("ice pick") lobotomy
Books and Other
Media:
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  American Experience: The Lobotomist
Campbell Scott 2008 -
An Angel at My Table DVD Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and
Iris Churn 1990
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Asylum
Sarah Roemer, Jake Muxworthy, Mark Rolston, and Travis Van Winkle 2008
- El-Hai, Jack
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the
World of Mental Illness (Hardcover - January 17, 2005)
- Frances DVD 1994 In the film
Jessica Lange plays the actress whose questionable mental illness resulted in
hospitalization and some of the treatments of her time.
- Frances Farmer
Paperback 1984
- From Hell
DVD Johnny Depp, Heather Graham 2001
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Midnight in Paris
Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion
Cotillard 2011
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest DVD Jack
Nicholson, Louise Fletcher 1975
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey (Paperback
- July 1989) | Library
Binding | Mass
Market Paperback | Audio
Cassette | Audio
CD (Unabridged)
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Shutter Island
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams 2009
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Suddenly, Last Summer DVD Elizabeth Taylor,
Katharine Hepburn 1959
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Valenstein, Elliot S. Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise
and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
Hardcover |
Paperback 1987
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Williams, Tennessee Suddenly
Last Summer (Paperback - January 1998)
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