About Lobotomies

During the first half of the 20th century, many psychiatric disturbances were treated by cutting into the brain, as in a lobotomy.  Why were doctors so keen on cutting the connections in people's brains? It was more of a societal problem than it was concern about the individual patient. Lobotomies made psychiatric patients easier to deal with. As bad as that seems, the conditions that led to lobotomies during the surgery's heyday make us cringe in the 21st century. They couldn't execute troublesome and inconvenient people, so they just cut their brains to make them into more convenient people. Some parts of our history truly resemble dystopian science fiction horror stories. (via Laughing Squid)