Spooky season hangover! To say farewell to Halloween, we have chosen a creepy experiment that has been a protagonist of many horror stories. In this episode we talk about the dreadful lobotomy, its inventor, and a man who became so obsessed with it that he could have been his own patient. -- Sources: German E. Berrios (1997): The origins of psychosurgery: Shaw, Burckhardt and Moniz. History of Psychiatry. / Jack El-Hai (2005): The Lobotomist / Hugh Levinson (2011): "The strange and curious history of lobotomy“, BBC News.