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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