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  2. Lobotomy - Wikipedia

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    The use of lobotomy in the United States was resisted and criticized heavily by American neurosurgeons. However, because Freeman managed to promote the success of the surgery through the media, lobotomy became touted as a miracle procedure, capturing the attention of the public and leading to an overwhelming demand for the operation.

  3. Walter Jackson Freeman II - Wikipedia

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    Walter Jackson Freeman II (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in lobotomy. [1] Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman invented a transorbital lobotomy procedure.

  4. James W. Watts - Wikipedia

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    Watts and Freeman wrote two books on lobotomies: Psychosurgery, Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Medical Disorders in 1942, and Psychosurgery in the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain in 1950. He is also known for carrying out the lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy under the supervision of ...

  5. Controversies about psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Psychiatry is, and has historically been, viewed as controversial by those under its care, as well as sociologists and psychiatrists themselves. There are a variety of reasons cited for this controversy, including the subjectivity of diagnosis, [1] the use of diagnosis and treatment for social and political control including detaining citizens and treating them without consent, [2] the side ...

  6. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    A mere 2.5 percent of all primary care doctors have gone through the certification process. “I cannot say it enough,” said then-Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) at the meeting. “Unless primary care physicians can identify the disease of addiction and know how to intervene, we will make slower progress than we should,” Levin said.

  7. History of psychosurgery - Wikipedia

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    Until Freeman introduced the technique of transorbital lobotomy, psychosurgery required the skills of a surgeon. The standard lobotomy/leucotomy involved drilling burr holes in the skull on the side of the head and inserting a cutting instrument; it was thus a "closed" operation, with the surgeon unable to see exactly what he was cutting.

  8. Does the GOLO Diet work? Experts explain the pros, cons, and ...

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    A typical day on the diet plan will see you eating between 1,300 and 1,800 calories, depending on gender. ... For most people, unless facing a significant disease state or in critical care ...

  9. Transgender care at issue in US Supreme Court's latest ... - AOL

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    Tennessee passed its law in March 2023 after a conservative political commentator's criticism of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's transgender health clinic in Nashville went viral on social ...