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Psychosurgery.org
This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure.
http://www.psychosurgery.org/

NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey
Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medical records, and talks to his dad about it. [22:49 in length, available via streaming audio or as mp3 file).
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080

Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why.
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/

Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy
Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/lbrgler.html

Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery
Long article published in Brain and Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm

Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital
Explores the historical background of psychosurgery and discusses the anatomic and physiologic basis for such procedures. Guidelines for the appropriate selection of surgical candidates is presented and the four most common psychosurgical procedures practiced today are described. Finally, the overall experience including indications, results and complications for each procedure is reviewed and compared.
http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/Functional/psysurg.htm

Rotten.com - Lobotomy
Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/

Father of the Lobotomy
Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman.
http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm

BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind
Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1318

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