Negative Space: lobotomies
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- Walter Jackson Freeman II
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“In 1936 Freeman… Freeman and Watts performed the first prefrontal lobotomy operation in the United States, on a 63-year-old housewife who was suffering from insomnia and agitated depression. Although the medical community was skeptical of the procedure and many physicians disapproved of it, Freeman believed it would change psychiatric medicine for the better and found the popular media to be an ally in his efforts to promote its use.”
Child mutilation in the service of gender quackery is something that future generations will look back on in horror, much as we today look back on the lobotomy.