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Post by trailboss on Jan 26, 2018 12:23:45 GMT -5
 I guess Stalin was worse, but... If you are of the younger set, you might not have heard of the medical procedure called frontal lobotomy. Dr. Walter Freeman started doing the procedure in the 1940's in order to curb behavioral issues with patients. It is a Pretty Frankenstinian procedure, and watching the procedure is not for the squeamish at heart. The Kennedy family had the procedure done on Rosemary, and that story in itself is bad enough, but thousands of patients later, it was discontinued...a lot of ruined lives in the process. The full PBS documentary: The procedure as produced by Dr. Freeman.. Graphic
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 26, 2018 12:31:36 GMT -5
Ack!
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Post by Darin on Jan 26, 2018 12:38:47 GMT -5
Netflix has a series called "Lore" in which this was presented ... truly horrific!
It's hard to believe the sheer volume of people this was done to and, oftentimes, for next to no reason at all.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 26, 2018 13:25:22 GMT -5
C'mon...something more dramatic!  |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 26, 2018 15:11:33 GMT -5
At the time, lobotomy was considered therapeutic for certain mental disorders. It did have a calming effect on violent patients in mental institutions. That procedure has been superseded by drug therapies. Electroshock was another "winner".
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Post by Darin on Jan 26, 2018 15:24:18 GMT -5
Dr. Freeman began his procedures with a good jolt to the temporal lobes ... then reached for the ice pick.  |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 26, 2018 15:37:33 GMT -5
The good old days. Now when kids misbehave they just get adderrall.
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Post by orley on Jan 26, 2018 16:29:22 GMT -5
I guess that is where the saying "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" came from. I can whole heartedly agree!
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Post by trailboss on Jan 26, 2018 20:16:18 GMT -5
The good old days. Now when kids misbehave they just get adderrall. Yeah.. the story says that the production of Thorazine signaled the end of F/L’s and was marketed as lobotomy in a bottle. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 26, 2018 20:37:23 GMT -5
I have been around people on thorozine and I bet the FL had milder side effects.
Are you sure that they didn't do Teddy too?
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Post by sablebrush52 on Jan 26, 2018 20:46:43 GMT -5
Who needs an ice pick when we have social media?
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 27, 2018 0:53:34 GMT -5
C'mon...something more dramatic!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 21:13:52 GMT -5
I find the whole procedure to be barbaric and reminiscent of Nazi experimentation.
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Post by crapgame on Jan 27, 2018 23:38:14 GMT -5
there was a very prolific MD in the pittsburgh area that did F/L cant remember name
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