The crisis in state mental hospitals motivated Dr. Walter Freeman to devise a simple version of the lobotomy procedure, one that could be used on a mass scale. "All of a sudden America sees these ...

Talking about the creation of lobotomy through various psychedelic-inspired scenes and under the cover of old archives, it retraces the history and harms of lobotomy in the most blinding way possible.

This terrible need for treatment cleared the path for widespread acceptance of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor Walter Freeman threw ...