Chicago, IL, August 09, 2018 --(PR.com)-- How did a vivacious, competent woman end up having a
lobotomy at the hands of the doctor who famously botched the operation on Rosemary Kennedy and what effect did this have on her young daughter?
Sternburg outlines her main question early and reveals the deeply personal stakes of her exploration: "If my relatives had been so good and kind, how could they have done this to their siblings?" Over the course of the book, this question extends beyond her family to the doctors, researchers, and society that made the
lobotomy decisions seem rational and unavoidable.
The upshot was that the woman who gave the impression that she has had a
lobotomy because it is the sort of thing her friends thinks is cool, doesn't want to see the woman who had the surgery.
Maybe if I'd had a
lobotomy but I'd hope a good friend would direct me to a gambling awareness group.
She is set to undergo a
lobotomy in five days' time and so she retreats into her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum plot to escape the facility.
He describes the development of mental hospitalization, the history of torturing mental patients, the concept of moral treatment in early psychiatry, the treatment of epileptics, electroshock therapy,
lobotomy, and the use of psychiatric drugs.
Now she's out of luck, as she's been denounced for dabbling in black magic, and she may end up being forced into having a
lobotomy. Funny that, because reading Black Magic Sanction made me feel like I'd already undergone a frontal
lobotomy...
Lastweek''s conference, with its acres of empty seats, looked a bit like meeting a dazed survivor from a full frontal
lobotomy.
Watching last week''s conference on the BBC Parliament Channel, with those acres of empty seats, was a bit like meeting a dazed survivor from a full frontal
lobotomy who has lost all their cognitive abilities.
I MUST have had a
lobotomy in my sleep, or how else will you explain my excitement over that scene from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds where the German ' Jew Hunter', Colonel Hans Landa ( played chillingly by Christoph Waltz), asks Shosanna Dreyfus ( Melanie Laurent), the young Jewish woman who'd escaped his gun when his men wiped out her family during a raid on their hideout in a French village, to have her apple strudel with fresh cream.
Admitting he is flawed, but of course still a genius, he will engage in a transformation from pupae to butterfly before the next General Election, asking the public to allow him to effect some form of NHS sponsored
lobotomy.