Yousra Dettmar | Business | Travel | Women Empowerment on Instagram: "TW! Last lobotomy performed: February 1967 Timeline: lobotomies were carried out in the U.S. from the mid‑1930s until February 1967. In the height of “psychiatric care,” more than 50,000 lobotomies were performed across the United States—most of them between 1949 and 1952. Women were disproportionately affected: around 60–75 % of patients were female, often judged ‘too emotional,’ ‘too sexual,’ or simply unwilling to conform.

The Dark History Of The Lobotomy, Which Is Technically Still Legal In America