It has been a long time since the first lobotomy was performed in the United States in 1936. The last recorded lobotomy was in 1967. By then, the dangerous and controversial surgical procedure was ...

A satirical advertisement for lobotomy, a discredited surgical treatment for mental illness widely performed in the mid-20th century, was intended to sell enamel pins, its creator said ...

Mary Thornton said she left the hospital because she feared being given a lobotomy From a dispute with her parents over her choice of boyfriend, a woman found herself in a mental health hospital ...