Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the mental asylums which ran in the early 1900s and the creation of the psychosurgery procedure of the lobotomy, including the story of Walter Freeman and the rise of the lobotomy in the US.

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Sources:
https://www.mind.org.uk/need-urgent-help/using-this-tool
American Scandal - Ice pick surgeon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/an-ice-pick-to-the-brain-the-horror-of-the-frontal-lobotomy/C2X63F5EDPOOGYJKKSRYMKGZEE/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/lobotomy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15629160

https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/43/3/article-pE6.xml

https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_in_the_Community

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/ely-inquiry-changed-healthcare-forever-2041200

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59388886