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." ...

“Doctors say that worry can be cut out of the brain with a knife. There is a better way. GO TO CHURCH.” So read one newspaper reaction to Dr. Walter Freeman’s lobotomy exhibit at a medical convention ...

In the early 20th century we had very little understanding of mental illness and how to treat it. Into this knowledge vacuum stepped Walter Freeman, a charismatic American neurologist with a bold ...

Jeff Goldblum will star in Rick Alverson’s latest flick, “The Mountain”, based on the father of the lobotomy, the infamous Dr. Walter Freeman. “The Mountain” is a period drama set in 1954, which ...

Lobotomies used to be a horrific way that doctors tried to treat patients with mental illness. Doctors thought those with mental illness had abnormal neural connections so severing them may help. More ...

Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a... 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey 'My Lobotomy' ...

One of the most horrifying medical treatments of the 20th century was carried out not clandestinely, but with the approval of the medical establishment, the media and the public. Known as the ...