On Mondays we read from your e-mails. And this week we focus on the enormous response to our show last week with Howard Dully. That followed the broadcast of his radio documentary "My Lobotomy." ...

Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally disabled in Jefferson, Wisconsin Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 ...

It has been a long time since the first lobotomy was performed in the United States in 1936. The last recorded lobotomy was in 1967. By then, the dangerous and controversial surgical procedure was ...

A satirical advertisement for lobotomy, a discredited surgical treatment for mental illness widely performed in the mid-20th century, was intended to sell enamel pins, its creator said, but it has ...

Caroline Reilly is a writer from New England. Thomas Lanier Williams III was away at college when he received a letter from his parents informing him that his sister, Rose, had undergone a lobotomy — ...

A Nov. 21 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be an old poster reading “Are you depressed? Do you suffer from anxiety and migraines? You may need a lobotomy.” It includes ...