Lobotomy

learning briefly about lobotomy in class, I wondered more about the shocking procedure. Lobotomy, by definition (Dictionary 2015), is “a surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness.” I found myself asking, what were the effects on a patient after a lobotomy procedure? I found a relevant article discussing a study done by Harriet Babcock in 1964 entitled, “A Case of Anxiety Neurosis Before and After Lobotomy”. Babcock was a…

Based on the videos, the surgical procedure of lobotomy served to be a cornerstone and a significant medical advancement within the field of psychiatry during the 1940s. The growth of mental illness was dominant during the time period due to which lobotomy was seen as a form of cure and hope for patients suffering from different mental disorders. Egas Moniz, a psychiatrist first introduced the concept of lobotomy (Kring and Johnson 17) but the surgical procedure became a medical breakthrough due…

offered a solution to the lack of therapeutic interventions for the mentally ill, although looking back on the treatment, many faults can be noticed. However, using a historical lens, the use of lobotomy can be better understood, along with the reasons for its eventual decline. The emergence of lobotomy as a therapeutic solution for mental illness can be more clearly understood by putting it into the historical context of the early twentieth century. Firstly, based on the present…

After doing some additional reading into Lobotomy and its side effects, I honestly think that the procedure was more of a torture rather than a treatment or cure for a disease. Upon watching the video, I was affected by seeing the pictures of the “ice picks” inside people’s orbits and realizing they would eventually touch the brain. What struck me the most is that what would make anyone especially a physician think that by doing this procedure they could actually help a patient instead of doing…

Shelters. Electro-Shock Therapy. Skull Drills. Pills. Expulsions. Seclusion. Lobotomies. A hefty portion of the uncommon systems that have been set up to ease a man of dysfunctional behavior are just effective in making "vegetables" out of patients, not curing their ailment but rather making them apparitions of their past selves. All through history, there have been radical changes in how the rationally sick are dealt with and watched over; a large portion of these happened on account of…

are the Lobotomy, E.C.T, and psychotropic medication. All the these treatments are being used today some more than others. In the early 20th century, the population in mental hospitals increased, beginning a Portuguese neuropsychiatrist named António Egas Moniz search for a brain surgery that will change a man's mind to make their behavior controllable. Before long, he created a radical surgery that will change the history of psychology forever, that surgery would be called a Lobotomy. A…

ordered by her father to receive a surgery that was said to be life changing. It was called the lobotomy. The Kennedy Family was immediately skeptical of such a surgery, and came to a conclusion that it was not what they wanted for Rosemary. But their opinion and rejection to the procedure was all in vain. Joe Kennedy ordered the lobotomy to be done immediately, without his family knowing. Rosemary’s lobotomy was performed by psychiatrist Dr. Walter Freeman, and Dr. James Watts. Dr. Freeman…

Lobotomy. It is a scary word. It has a medical sound to it, with Greek origins. On hearing this word, a strange image conjures. A thin bespectacled man dressed in white, patiently drilling a hole in my skull with surgical precision. I do not fear the man in the white. He does not look scary. I don’t fear surgeries. They are useful, and often necessary. What terrifies me is the possibility of losing a part of my brain, consequently my self. Descartes could delude, or comfort, himself with the…

This was used to alter the patient’s personality. Lima and Moniz then began to promote the procedure around Europe (Gallea,2017). Soon after this, the lobotomy launched into acceptance. The North American medical community was introduced to the lobotomy. An American neurologist, and his partner James W. Watts a neurosurgeon took interest in the lobotomy. (Gallea,2017)…

insane asylum he oversaw, that were experiencing mental illnesses and managed them afterward in the asylum. In 1935, Carlyle Jacobsen and John Fulton performed frontal lobe ablation on chimpanzees and Antonio Egas Moniz, who is credited for developing lobotomy, began similar experiments on humans. Moniz believed the behavioral problems his patients experienced originated from fixed circuits in the brain. Along with the assistance of Lima, he conducted many leucotomy operations. The operation…