“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 ...

Mental illness is rampant in every society, in all sorts of forms. Curing mental illness, or even alleviating it, usually ranges from difficult to impossible. So imagine the fascination of Minneapolis ...

Robert Schwentke has been tapped to direct the HBO drama pilot “The Lobotomist,” with Daniel Thomsen on board to write the script. Thomsen will co-exec produce and Aaron Criswell is set as a ...

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." ...

Beneath the washed-out, drab setting of The Mountain is a vein pulsing with rage. Set in the 1950s, the movie follows a veteran lobotomist, played by Jeff Goldblum, as he sets up shop in mental ...

Andrew Scull is chairman of the department of sociology at UC San Diego and author of "Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine." Walter FREEMAN was a hard man to like. Most of his ...

It was hailed by the New York Times as "surgery of the soul," a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. But what began as ...