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Playing doctor.(Hollywood Reader)(Brief article)
Although it's a condemned medical practice now, psychosurgery was all the rage in post-WWII America, thanks to Dr. Walter Freeman. As Jack El-Hai details in The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (Wiley, 2005), the brain doc made common the transorbital lobotomy--a process that often involved an ice pick and a carpenter's hammer--in an attempt to improve the welfare of his …
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