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A Nov. 21 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be an old poster reading “Are you depressed? Do you suffer from anxiety and migraines? You may need a lobotomy.” It includes ...

One of the most shameful episodes in the history of psychology is the use of frontal lobotomies. Despite very scant evidence of their effectiveness—and in spite of much evidence of serious negative ...

Over the past several years, in many conversations and writings, I have repeatedly decried the growing excesses of impromptu medicine. Yet it has recently been brought to my attention that these ...

Caroline Reilly is a writer from New England. Thomas Lanier Williams III was away at college when he received a letter from his parents informing him that his sister, Rose, had undergone a lobotomy — ...