Part One: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy

In Episode 94, Robert is joined by Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Walter Freeman, the father of lobotomies.

FOOTNOTES:

1. The Lobotomist
2. Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy
3. Rosemary Kennedy: the sad life of President Kennedy's younger sister
4. Rosemary Kennedy: Telling the story of a forgotten daughter
5. Inside Rosemary Kennedy's Disastrous Lobotomy – And How Her Father Chose Her Doctor
6. Walter Freeman: The Father of the Lobotomy
7. He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain...
8. Joe Kennedy, Sr sought secret deal with De Valera on Irish ports during the War
9. Mental Illness Is On the Rise in the U.S. for a Frustrating Reason
10. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness 
11. My Lobotomy

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