On Mondays we read from your e-mails. And this week we focus on the enormous response to our show last week with Howard Dully. That followed the broadcast of his radio documentary "My Lobotomy." ...

In the early 20th century we had very little understanding of mental illness and how to treat it. Into this knowledge vacuum stepped Walter Freeman, a charismatic American neurologist with a bold ...

“Doctors say that worry can be cut out of the brain with a knife. There is a better way. GO TO CHURCH.” So read one newspaper reaction to Dr. Walter Freeman’s lobotomy exhibit at a medical convention ...

An illustration of the human brain. (American Heart Association/Reuters) Toward the end of his life, Dr. Walter Freeman crisscrossed the United States to seek out his former patients and follow up on ...

When she was just 23, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a relatively new procedure – a prefrontal lobotomy – that was ordered by her father in an attempt to ease her emotional outbursts. Instead, the surgery ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA*9)--Rotting and abandoned in Southeast DC is a chilling reminder of a time when science went tragically astray. A place where the doctor who popularized lobotomies got his start. It’s ...

Word that Golden Globe-nominated actor Tom Sizemore will star as Walter Jackson Freeman, the doctor who created the lobotomy, arrived in our inbox; and of course we had to share the news! The new film ...

St. Elizabeths, one of the most historic and infamous landmarks in D.C., has been abandoned and closed to the public for ...

There was a time when people with severe mental illness might be given an operation to sever connections in the brain. Lobotomy became one of the most notorious surgical procedures of the 20th Century ...

Howard Dully got a lobotomy at age 12. "By some miracle, it didn't turn me into a zombie, or crush my spirit, or kill me," he told NPR in 2005 as an adult. "But it did affect me deeply." Lobotomies ...