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The hall...... of BRAIN PAIN.

(under construction)

Topics to be written about at some point in the future in an opinionated and inaccurate manner by a layman who finds it interesting.... :

• Lobotomies (The Physical Process)
• Early Lobotomy
• "Ice Pick" Lobotomy
• The endless list of things that could and did go wrong.
• Results; Ideal vs. Non-Ideal


• Lobotomies (The Impact on Patients)
• The patients themselves.
• Who recieved Lobotomies?
• What happened to them?
• How many people Recieved Lobotomies, Really?


• Lobotomies (The cultural Impact)
• Popularity
• Nobel prize of 1949
• Lobotomy Craze


• Lobotomies (The Cultural Impact Part 2; i.e Rosemary Kennedy and the cultural tide shift.)
• The lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy
• Advent of modern pharmacuticals
• Cruelty and Concerns
• The end of lobotomies


• Egas Moniz and Leucotomy
• Monkeys


• Walter Freeman
• Family
• Career
• Why Lobotomy?
• Negative impact and state of being in Society.


• Lobotomies from a cultural standpoint in the modern age.
• Current Views on Lobotomy
• Barbarism


• Mental healthcare before the advent of modern pharmicuticals.


• State Asylums; founding, a general history and mistreatment of patients


• The dissolution of the State Asylum as an institution; an examination of the pros and cons
• Public Works funding and Ronald Reagan (of course.)


• Bibliography and a list of sources and places to access them; i.e. further reading
• Sources
• Good (but sometimes dry) Reading
• Sensationalized stuff
• Absolute Trash
• Reviews of Popularly Available Lobotomy Liturature