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Doctor Ice Pick
by Claire Prentice
dark
informative
fast-paced
Walter Freeman II was an American doctor that specialized in lobotomy procedures. He thought that lobotomies were a great procedure, and wanted to simplify the methods of execution so that they could be performed in psychiatric hospitals. Most of those hospitals did not have a sterile surgical suite, anesthesia, or on hand surgeons. To answer that issue, he invented the transorbital lobotomy. The transorbital lobotomy was done by placing an instrument that looked like an ice pick under the eyelid and against the top of the eye socket, whacking it with a mallet through the bone, and into the brain. He started doing these procedures one after another, traveling around to different facilities to demonstrate. He had a falling out with his partner over his behavior. It is believed that he performed up to 4,000 lobotomies, with around 100 of those dying from bleeding in the brain.
Mental health services have evolved so much over the years, but could be better still. At least we aren't back in the middle ages where we are lining up 200 or more people and doing this procedure on them all day. That is cruel and insane to me. The surgery causes most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex to be severed. A vast portion of lobotomies were performed on women, signed up for this procedure by their husbands who deemed them hysterical or strong willed, which is enraging. The purpose of this was to get rid of symptoms of various mental disorders, but it often left patients (or victims) with seizure disorders, lacking the social skills they had before, altered communication, and altered mental status. It is horrible and disgusting to think about how people were treated and essentially experimented on.
This book is available for $1.99 or free to borrow on Amazon Prime Books. The Kindle version is only 85 pages, and the Audible narration is just over two hours. The book is not as detailed as I would have liked, but you can only fit so much into this short of a book. It was a great jumping off point for learning about this topic if you are interested in it.
Mental health services have evolved so much over the years, but could be better still. At least we aren't back in the middle ages where we are lining up 200 or more people and doing this procedure on them all day. That is cruel and insane to me. The surgery causes most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex to be severed. A vast portion of lobotomies were performed on women, signed up for this procedure by their husbands who deemed them hysterical or strong willed, which is enraging. The purpose of this was to get rid of symptoms of various mental disorders, but it often left patients (or victims) with seizure disorders, lacking the social skills they had before, altered communication, and altered mental status. It is horrible and disgusting to think about how people were treated and essentially experimented on.
This book is available for $1.99 or free to borrow on Amazon Prime Books. The Kindle version is only 85 pages, and the Audible narration is just over two hours. The book is not as detailed as I would have liked, but you can only fit so much into this short of a book. It was a great jumping off point for learning about this topic if you are interested in it.