When she was 22 years old, Rosemary Kennedy’s powerful father forced her to have a lobotomy, citing her supposed intellectual disabilities, but new evidence has revealed the even darker truth. | Factinate

Let’s talk about the history of the prefrontal lobotomy, psychosurgery, and Rosemary Kennedy. Frontal lobotomy, the sectioning of the prefrontal cortex, and leucotomy, the severing of the underlying white matter, for the treatment of mental disorders, reached a peak of popularity after World War II. But development of this surgery began in the 1930s with the work of the celebrated Egas Moniz, who also made his mark in neuroradiology as the father of cerebral angiography. Moniz and Lima performed