Praise for "The Lobotomist"
"Written with such clarity and engaging detail that a reader has
difficulty in putting it down."
--"The New York Review of Books"
"One of the many virtues of El-Hai's text is the rich detail he
provides about Freeman's life and ideas."
--"Los Angeles Times"
"Fascinating . . . an important and disturbing contribution to
the history of psychiatry."
--"New Statesman"
"Captivating. . . . No history of modern psychiatry is complete
without this story."
--Andrew Solomon, author of "The Noonday Demon"
"The Lobotomist" explores one of the darkest chapters of
American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of
thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle
decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter
Freeman, M.D., who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation
intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Although
many patients did not benefit from the thousands of lobotomies
Freeman performed, others believed their lobotomies changed them
for the better.
Drawing on a rich collection of documents Freeman left behind
and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a
penetrating look into the life of this complex scientific genius
and traces the physician's fascinating life and work.
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