Lobotomy Blues: Dorothy Parker...

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A brilliant film about the relative merits/demerits of sanity.
I found it moving. I knew someone who was given a lobotomy. They erased who she was. It was perverse. And she knew what they had taken from her and never could get it back.

Lobotomy’s are illegal most places. Although Moniz would share the 1949 Nobel Prize in medicine for his pioneering work in psychosurgery, the lobotomy had not only fallen out of favor by the 1950s but was being excoriated as a barbaric practice. The Soviet Union banned the surgery in 1950, arguing that it was “contrary to the principles of humanity.”

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Other countries, including Germany and Japan, banned it, too, but lobotomies continued to be performed on a limited scale in the United States, Britain, Scandinavia and several western European countries well into the 1980s.

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The United States performed more lobotomies — roughly 40,000 — than any other nation. Some very conspicuous failures, including a lobotomy that reduced John F. Kennedy’s elder sister, Rosemary, to a near-vegetative state, helped turn public opinion against the surgery.

Or, as the hard-drinking wit Dorothy Parker observed: “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.”

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Rosemary Kennedy, the younger sister of John F Kennedy was born with a mild intellectual disability in 1918.

Although she was happy, personable and vivacious, she could not keep up with her eight high achieving siblings. She was sent to a dozen different schools and traipsed around every doctor and psychologist in New England in the hope of a cure.

She had a brief period of happiness at a Montessori school in London, while her father was

Ambassador to the UK, but the war cut this short. When she returned home she went into a decline and her father had her lobotomised at the age of 23, and she had no contact with her family for the next 20 years.

This video explores the shocking views about intellectual disability held by many societies in the 1930s and 40s and the limited treatments available for mental disorders at that time. The details of her lobotomy are presented with a new analysis of some of her behaviour by a neuropsychiatrist with experience of complex mental disorders.

I will also explain why Dr Walter Freeman, who was involved in Rosemary’s lobotomy and who went on to perform 4000 other surgeries, has been described as the most scorned doctor besides Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

Discovering more for yourself
Kate Clifford Larson’s biography of Rosemary is detailed and authoritative, but more than that, it captures the tragedy of Rosemary’s life, the daughter who just wanted to please her impossible father. Jack El-Hai’s account of Walter Freeman, the Lobotomist, is a fascinating read as well for anyone wanting to know more about one of the darkest chapters in medical history.

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The Mountain – Tye Sheridan & Jeff Goldblum – Official Trailer Set against the 1950’s

“golden age” of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Also starring Denis Lavant and Udo Kier.

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https://vimeo.com/200603341 abuse at the hands of psychiatry has not ended… as R.D.Lang once said, psychiatry is a system of state control…

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Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, wit, and satirist based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Thank you to: Biographer, Marion Meade Biographer, Kevin Fitzpatrick

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