3. Topic Importance Showed how psychiatric patients were viewed in the mid 1900’s. The start of actually trying to rehabilitate psychiatric patients. Showed how doctors could do anything they wanted back in the day
4. Prevalence Over 70,000 patients had a lobotomy performed on them. Lobotomies were mainly performed on mental patients, women, and kids around adolescence. Lobotomies were performed in the United States, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden.
5. Typical Symptoms The typical lobotomy patient prior to the surgery showed signs of aggressiveness, hostility, and rambunctious behavior. Patients after the lobotomy were usually more calm, relaxed, but lacked will to do anything. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s, R.P. Mcmurphy had received a lobotomy at the end of the movie. He showed no will to move or do anything.
6. Operation The way a trans-orbital lobotomy was performed was by driving ice picks through the eyebrow and into the frontal lobe of the patient. The objective was to disrupt something in the frontal lobe in order to create an imbalance that would in turn calm the patient down.
7. Prevention There are many ways to avoid a lobotomy due to the fact that lobotomy is used as a last resort. See a counselor Muscle relaxing technique Exposure to your fear
8. Local Resources Equilibria psychological and consolation services. (267-861-3685) Thomas A. Bartlett (215-732-3103) Friends Hospital (1-800-889-0548)
