Re: The Lobotomist

On Jan 17, 4:05 am, real-address-in-...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland
McDonnell) wrote:
Chrissy <cv.spen...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim <tim...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/

Full program online from Jan 22nd

Examines the career of psychiatrist Walter J. Freeman, who performed
nearly 3,000 "ice pick" lobotomies during the late 1930s and 1940s.

Was he killed horribly?  If not, I don't want to know anything about it.

[snip]

Thanks Tim but I'll have to pass on that one, would upset me too much.
I remember reading about the first patient (guinea-pig), a prostitute
- it said, if I remember right, she didn't even remember her name
afterwards.

The cruelty and absence of professional ethics demonstrated by the
psychiatric profession throughout its history has long angered, upset,
and disgusted me.

Watched "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" - that made me cry buckets
too.

That film upset me too and made me want to go on a killing spree.  Kill
the shrinks, kill the psychiatric nurses, kill the lot of them.  It's
the only civilised, reasonable response, I reckon.

When I get upset over a film, I usually shed a few tears & blow my
nose - loudly; never considered going on a killing spree ;)

Chrissy
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