Walter Freeman's Biography

Walter Freeman's book, psychosurgery and the treatment of mental disorders made an enormous splash in the world of medicine when it was first published in 1950. The tome featured language not often used in works of medicine, like the term scrawny frayed cats used to refer to a group of patients. This lurid prose, along with the gauche marketing technique used by Freeman to attract the press alienated many mainstream medical professionals. We're also going to discuss the most famous patient he and Watts ever operated on, the poster victim of lobotomy and sister to president John F. Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy. But right now Daniel van Kirk, it's time for you to plug