As the father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic ...

Over the past several years, in many conversations and writings, I have repeatedly decried the growing excesses of impromptu medicine. Yet it has recently been brought to my attention that these ...

Based on: Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders. By Walter Freeman, M.D., Ph.D., and James W ...

In the history of medicine, few stories capture the dual nature of scientific progress and human tragedy quite like the infamous "lobotomobile." This traveling psychiatric clinic, which crisscrossed ...