The History of the Lobotomy - Part 3

In our last two episodes we have covered a lot of history behind the lobotomy. We have talked about the advent of psycho surgery, the surgeons who pioneered the practice, the advent of the leucotomy, and the surgeon and neurologist that turned it into the lobotomy. Today will be our final instalment, and we are going to cover Walter Freeman, how he split from his neurosurgeon partner James Watts, and then how he single handedly performed thousands of transorbital lobotomies, also known as ice pick lobotomies, on patients as young as four years old.

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