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Pretty sure "the press" has been the primary lobotomy recipient over the last 70 or so years.
Pretty sure "the press" has been the primary lobotomy recipient over the last 70 or so years.
“In 1941, one of the most influential articles on the procedure, titled “Turning the Mind Inside Out,” appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The article was written by Waldemar Kaempffert, who was also an editor at the New York Times: “There must be at least two hundred men and women in the United States who have had worries, persecution complexes, suicidal intentions, obsessions, indecisiveness, and nervous tensions literally cut out of their minds with a knife by a new operation on the brain.” Walter Freeman later said that without the press, lobotomies would never have been so widely accepted.”
Excerpt From: Paul A. Offit. “Pandora's Lab.”
“In 1941, one of the most influential articles on the procedure, titled “Turning the Mind Inside Out,” appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The article was written by Waldemar Kaempffert, who was also an editor at the New York Times: “There must be at least two hundred men and women in the United States who have had worries, persecution complexes, suicidal intentions, obsessions, indecisiveness, and nervous tensions literally cut out of their minds with a knife by a new operation on the brain.” Walter Freeman later said that without the press, lobotomies would never have been so widely accepted.”
Excerpt From: Paul A. Offit. “Pandora's Lab.”
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