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Part Two: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Know When You've Taken Enough?

Rosemary Kennedy had a prefrontal lobotomy in 1941. The procedure essentially erased her brain tissue. "This is all a double war. It's a double smack," she says.

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