Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-11-05

Books mentioned on Part One: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy

2 books · With Daniel Van Kirk · Listen · Watch on YouTube

In Episode 94, Robert is joined by Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Walter Freeman, the father of lobotomies.

Robert Evans discussed The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai and Psychosurgery by Walter Freeman and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   The Lobotomist

   Jack El-Hai · at 9:57 · mentioned 5 times

   The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai is a biography of Walter Freeman, the American physician who popularized the prefrontal lobotomy.

   Discussed

   “the wonderful biography uh of Walter the Labotamist notes that he also nursed a lifelong fear of horses but never knew why”

   Robert Evans Part One: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy 2019-11-05 Listen at 9:57

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2. 

   Psychosurgery

   Walter Freeman; James Winston Watts · at 1:05:44

   Discussed

   “This book, Psychosoy and the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain, made an enormous splash in the world of medicine when it was first published in 1950.”

   Robert Evans Part One: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy 2019-11-05 Listen at 1:05:44

   Where to get it

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