Hi friends, happy Thursday!

Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Today, we are going to talk about an insane chapter in medical history where a doctor sold a procedure, the lobotomy, as if it were an infomercial. For a low, low price, this idiot promised to solve all your mental illnesses. He just has to stick this ice pick in your brain.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
02:06 LOBOTOMIES & PATIENTS
05:11 ROSEMARY KENNEDY
10:39 DR.MONIZ
13:19 WALTER FREEMAN
15:12 ALICE HAMMATT
20:14 SURGERY OF THE SOUL
24:12 MAKING LOBOTOMIES SIMPLER
30:16 LOBOTOMY POPULARITY
31:13 HOWARD DULLY
35:15 THE DOWNFALL
39:06 THE APOLOGY TOUR
42:43 PUBLIC PERCEPTION
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Berlatsky, Noah. “The botched lobotomy of Gretchen Richards Reb.” A Beautiful Perspective, 1 Nov 2018, abeautifulperspective.com/2018/11/botched-lobotomy-gretchen-richards-reb/

Day, Elizabeth. “He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain…” The Guardian, 13 Jan 2008,

El-Hai, Jack. “Race and Gender in the Selection of Patients for Lobotomy.” Wonders & Marvels, 2016,

El-Hai, Jack. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. Wiley, 2005.

Faria, Miguel A. Jr. “Violence, mental illness, and the brain – A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 1 – From trephination to lobotomy.” US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, vol. 4, no. 49, 5 Apr 2013,

Gallea, Michael A. “A BRIEF REFLECTION ON THE NOT-SO-BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LOBOTOMY.” BC Medical Journal, vol. 59, No. 6, July-Aug 2017, bcmj.org/mds-be/brief-reflection-not-so-brief-history-lobotomy

Godin, Simon, and Brett LeBlanc. “The History of Lobotomies: Examining its Impacts on Marginalized Groups and the Development of Psychosurgery.” Psychology from the Margins, vol. 2, no. 4, 2020, ideaexchange.uakron.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=psychologyfromthemargins

Hapsis, Emmanuel. “Rosemary Kennedy: The Tragic Story of Why JFK’s Sister Disappeared from Public View.” KQED, 15 Aug 2016,

Johnson, Jenell. American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. University of Michigan Press, 17 Oct 2014, p. 50.

Kessler, Ronald. The Sins of the Father, Warner Books, 1996, p. 243.

Klaf, Franklin S., and Charles A. Davis. “HOMOSEXUALITY AND PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA: A SURVEY OF 150 CASES AND CONTROLS.” The American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 116, no. 12, June 1960, ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1070?journalCode=ajp

Koziol, Mary. “Diagnosing Womanhood: Lessons Learned from Gender Bias in 20th Century Psychiatry.” McGill University Library, 2016,

Lenz, Lyz. “The Secret Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy.” Marie Claire, 31 Mar 2017,

Tone, Andrea, and Mary Koziol. “(F)ailing women in psychiatry: lessons from a painful past.” US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, vol. 190, no. 20,

“Walter Freeman’s Psychosurgery and Biological Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale.” Neurology Today, vol. 5, no. 4, 2005, journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2005/04000/WALTER_FREEMAN_S_PSYCHOSURGERY_AND_BIOLOGICAL.20.aspx
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Dark History is an Audioboom Original

This podcast is Executive Produced by:
Chelsea Durgin from Slash Mgmt, Bailey Sarian, and Avi Gandhi from Wheelhouse DNA
Producer: Lexxi Kiven, Derrial Christon and Spencer Strasmore
Research provided by: Jed Bookout
Writers: Jed Bookout, Michael Oberst, Joey Scavuzzo and me – Bailey Sarian
I’m your host —-Princess of the Dark, Bailey Sarian
Historical Consultants: Jack El-Hai (Author of “The Lobotomist”) and Janell Johnson
Video Director: Trent Barboza and Eric Abell
Edited by: Ryan Philander & Jim Luci
Production Management: Marissa Barrrientos