>>13784390Fpbp. lobotomy is a perfectly good procedure for certain patients, it's just made obsolete by less intrusive and less permanent therapies. Afaik it's demonized for only a few reasons:
>1. it's gruesome to think about>2. it's portrayed in the media and pop culture as some kind of extensive brain scrambling surgery>3. people never bother to read contemporaneous accounts by neurologists and psychiatrists that explain what they were doing and whyThere were also a few high profile lobotomy fuckups, including one of the Kennedy girls. But mostly 2 and 3. People these days are waaaay to quick to assume that someone else, especially someone in the past, is acting out of evil (usually in the form of racism) when that isn't what's going on at all. Like the 1949 Nobel committee thought turning people into vegetables was just dandy.
