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    lobotomy


    1. What kind of chemicals would he use on me? Or worse, was he talking about lobotomy? I’d rather die than live without my full brain


    2. would have preferred a lobotomy and a straightjacket to counter my


    3. The lobotomy had been successful


    4. Antonio Moniz, the man who is considered an authority on the lobotomy procedure, the very latest in psychiatric medicine


    5. I snort, thinking of that song we used to play back home in the Brickyard that went, I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy


    6. The lobotomy procedure had been in practice in the United States for less than three years, and fewer than one hundred patients had undergone the surgery


    7. Local and national media coverage of lobotomy research was quite limited at this time, in spite of the feverish advocacy with which Freeman presented his research to colleagues


    8. Notwithstanding the mostly positive report in the Saturday Evening Post that spring, in August 1941, the Journal of the American Medical Association warned against the use of lobotomy until further research could be done


    9. Freeman had participated in a panel at the annual American Medical Association meeting, in Cleveland, earlier that year on the efficacy of the prefrontal lobotomy


    10. Though the prefrontal lobotomy was not recommended for curing or treating intellectual and developmental disabilities, Freeman assured Joe of the efficacy of his experimental brain operation

    11. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1941, when the AMA warned against the use of lobotomy and called for more studies, Freeman and Watts were scheduling more lobotomies


    12. The first lobotomy had been performed in Europe in 1935 by a Portuguese neurologist, Egas Moniz


    13. There was no consensus as to which underlying disease or illness would benefit the most from lobotomy


    14. With few options, some psychiatrists and neurosurgeons looked to the lobotomy as a possible miracle cure for mentally ill, depressed, and disabled patients


    15. ” Women, in particular, made up the largest group of lobotomy patients


    16. Rosemary would emerge from the lobotomy almost completely disabled


    17. In the hours, days, and weeks following lobotomy, patients like Rosemary experienced a wide array of postoperative reactions and symptoms


    18. Determining that he could perform the surgery as well as a neurosurgeon, Freeman developed altered surgical instruments to reduce the time it took to complete a lobotomy


    19. Ann Gargan later recalled that the lobotomy “was an absolute devastating thing, but once it was done [Joe] decided that he had to protect Rose from the heartbreak, believing it would shatter her to see her daughter that way while it would do Rosemary no good at all, since she no longer realized who she was


    20. ” Rose’s frankness is revealing: the lobotomy had injured her as much as it had Rosemary

    21. “Dear Daddy,” she wrote sometime in the spring, four or five months after Rosemary’s lobotomy, “the latest joke I meant to tell you last night about Washington is: A man is having terrible headaches so he went to a doctor who had a cure


    22. Two months before the lobotomy, Eunice had enrolled at Sacred Heart in Manhattanville, now offering a full-fledged college program for women


    23. Joe did not want to explain why Rosemary had had a lobotomy, when it was performed, and what had happened to her afterward


    24. Ironically, Joe’s decision concerning the lobotomy had rendered Rosemary more, rather than less, of a threat to the Kennedy family aspirations


    25. While Rosemary may have benefited from an examination at McLean when her erratic and violent behaviors increased before her surgery, it was not suitable for her after the lobotomy, given the physical and intellectual impairments it caused


    26. ” The article did not directly state that she lived with intellectual disabilities, nor was it revealed that it was the lobotomy that had further disabled her


    27. While there was no mention of Rosemary’s lobotomy, this was the first time a clear statement was made about Rosemary’s disability


    28. Eunice, however, did not reveal that Rosemary had been subjected to a debilitating lobotomy


    29. Nevertheless, the fact of the lobotomy was not revealed in Times to Remember, and it would remain secret for a decade more


    30. Most important, she was the first to reveal that Rosemary had undergone a lobotomy

    31. A large amount of the withdrawn material is associated with Rosemary’s treatment and care after her lobotomy


    32. And my discovery that Freeman and Watts’s lobotomy research, including detailed case studies, appeared within months of Rosemary’s lobotomy brings us chillingly close to her tragic experience


    33. They, like most of their generation of Kennedys, are as unclear about Rosemary’s early life as a Kennedy, her disabilities, and the reason for her tragic lobotomy as are most historians


    34. These images gave me a glimpse of the vibrant young woman Rosemary was on the eve of her lobotomy, making the surgery all the more tragic to me


    35. “Reports of a Partial Frontal Lobectomy and Frontal Lobotomy Performed on Three Patients: One Chronic Epileptic, and Two Cases of Chronic Agitated Depression,” Psychosomatic Medicine 3, no


    36. [>] the lobotomy “was an absolute devastating thing”: Interview with Ann Gargan King in DKG, 643


    37. By this time the family and media were more open about her developmental disability and the tragedy of her lobotomy, but people still didn’t seem to understand the last lesson Aunt Rosemary had to teach us


    38. She wasn’t given a lobotomy because of her developmental disability, which had been relatively stable since her birth; her case actually illustrated perfectly how a certain percentage of the entire population, regardless of their other conditions, will develop mental illness in their late teens and early twenties


    39. This is another reason that trading is for the birds; to make the big money you have to have the kind of engagement level that would suggest you’d had a lobotomy


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    Synonyms for "lobotomy"

    frontal lobotomy leucotomy leukotomy lobotomy prefrontal leucotomy prefrontal leukotomy prefrontal lobotomy

    "lobotomy" definitions

    surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes