To start with: No. You should not have (or perform) a lobotomy. It would be impossible to find a surgeon willing to take on the procedure, and whatever is wrong with you would be better handled ...

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My friend Jesper Vaczy Kragh has recently published an excellent book on the history of lobotomy in Denmark. Lobotomy was a psychosurgical treatment for mental illness that became popular during the ...

In her new memoir, The Nine of Us, Jean Kennedy Smith, 86, writes about her eldest sister Rosemary, who underwent a disastrous lobotomy in 1941 when she was 23 years old. Kennedy Smith, the last ...

When she was just 23, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a relatively new procedure – a prefrontal lobotomy – that was ordered by her father in an attempt to ease her emotional outbursts. Instead, the surgery ...