S20E1 American Experience S20E3

American Experience - S20E2: The Lobotomist

Episode · 2008 · 55m

8+ Ages 8-9

Editor

Outstanding

TV-PG

Documentary

What's the Story?

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.

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