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A hole in one [videorecording] /
Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf, Tim Guinee.A woman preoccupied with mental health decides her happiness can only be achieved by undergoing a lobotomy.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Frontal lobotomy; Mental health;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lobotomist's wife [sound recording] / by Woodruff, Samantha Greene,author.(CARDINAL)858549; Campbell, Casandranarrator(CARDINAL)340930;
"Since her brother took his life after WWI, Ruth Emeraldine has had one goal: to help those suffering from mental illness. Then she falls in love with charismatic Robert Apter--a brilliant doctor championing a radical new treatment, the lobotomy. Ruth believes in it as a miracle treatment and in Robert as its genius pioneer. But as her husband spirals into deluded megalomania, Ruth can't ignore her growing suspicions. Robert is operating on patients recklessly, often with horrific results. And a vulnerable young mother, Margaret Baxter, is poised to be his next victim. Margaret can barely get out of bed, let alone care for her infant. When Dr. Apter diagnoses her with the baby blues and proposes a lobotomy, she believes the procedure is her only hope. Only Ruth can save her--and scores of others--from the harrowing consequences of Robert's ambitions. Inspired by a shocking chapter in medical history, The Lobotomist's Wife is a galvanizing novel of a woman fighting against the most grievous odds, of ego, and of the best intentions gone horribly awry"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Fiction.; Medical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Frontal lobotomy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lobotomist's wife : a novel / by Woodruff, Samantha Greene,author.(CARDINAL)858549;
"Since her brother took his life after WWI, Ruth Emeraldine has had one goal: to help those suffering from mental illness. Then she falls in love with charismatic Robert Apter--a brilliant doctor championing a radical new treatment, the lobotomy. Ruth believes in it as a miracle treatment and in Robert as its genius pioneer. But as her husband spirals into deluded megalomania, Ruth can't ignore her growing suspicions. Robert is operating on patients recklessly, often with horrific results. And a vulnerable young mother, Margaret Baxter, is poised to be his next victim. Margaret can barely get out of bed, let alone care for her infant. When Dr. Apter diagnoses her with the baby blues and proposes a lobotomy, she believes the procedure is her only hope. Only Ruth can save her--and scores of others--from the harrowing consequences of Robert's ambitions. Inspired by a shocking chapter in medical history, The Lobotomist's Wife is a galvanizing novel of a woman fighting against the most grievous odds, of ego, and of the best intentions gone horribly awry"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Frontal lobotomy;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Lobotomy : resort to the knife / by Shutts, David.;
Bibliography: pages 261-267.
Subjects: Frontal lobotomy; Psychosurgery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Great and desperate cures : the rise and decline of psychosurgery and other radical treatments for mental illness / by Valenstein, Elliot S.(CARDINAL)149754;
Bibliography: pages 298-328.
Subjects: Psychosurgery; Frontal lobotomy; Mental illness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My lobotomy / by Dully, Howard,1948-(CARDINAL)489502; Fleming, Charles.(CARDINAL)745011;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dully, Howard, 1948-; Frontal lobotomy; Psychosurgery;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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My lobotomy : a memoir / by Dully, Howard,1948-(CARDINAL)489502; Fleming, Charles.(CARDINAL)745011;
June -- Lou -- 762 Edgewood -- Trouble -- Dr. Freeman -- Dully, Howard (F: Rodney L.) -- My lobotomy -- Big enough and ugly enough -- Asylum -- Rancho Linda -- Agnews. Again -- Homeless -- Barbara -- Journey -- Archives -- Broadcast -- One last word --Afterword.At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody, messy, rambunctious, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital--or ice pick--lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn't until his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But he stil struggled with one question: Why? Through his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families talked with one of Freeman's sons about his father's controversial life's work, and confronted his own father about his complicity. And, in the doctor's files, he finally came face to face with the truth. -- From publisher description; Crown Publishers, 2007.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dully, Howard, 1948-; Psychosurgery; Frontal lobotomy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 9
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The lobotomist : a maverick medical genius and his tragic quest to rid the world of mental illness / by El-Hai, Jack.(CARDINAL)770544;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-354) and index.Prologue -- September 1936 -- Rittenhouse Square -- The education of a lobotomist -- In the hospital wards -- A perfect partner -- Refining lobotomy -- Lines of battle -- Life and death -- Waterfall -- Fame -- Road warrior -- Leaving home -- Decline -- Ghost -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Bibliography.
Subjects: Biographies.; Freeman, Walter, 1895-1972.; Depression, Mental; Frontal lobotomy; Neurosurgeons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The sleep room : a sadistic psychiatrist and the women who survived him / by Stock, Jon,author. (CARDINAL)419260;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index."The Sleep Room is thriller novelist Jon Stock's investigation into one of the most revered figures in British postwar medicine, the private world of the Sleep Room in Ward 5, and the science of the psychology that produced it. Building on the testimony of eight survivors, Stock looks at the problem of the limited tool kit psychology has at its disposal, and the shadowy interface between medicine, the intelligence community, and dangerous charlatans. Dr. William Sargant ran a lucrative private practice and published multiple books on psychiatry, and he was awarded the Starkey medal and prize by the Royal Society of Health for his work on psychiatric medicine. But what he was best known for was the apogee of his career: the Sleep Room in Ward 5. This was a dark gallery where patients selected by Sargant were, often without their consent or that of their families, subjected to deep narcosis, sleeping for more than 21 hours per day for weeks at a time, and roused only for sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. There, Sargent practiced his enthusiasm for now-discredited treatments such as lobotomy and electroshock therapy with zeal. Inspired by the work of Pavlov on conditioning in dogs, and by the post-Freudian revolution in psychiatric pharmacology, Sargant believed in aggressive interventions. When his patients finished their treatment, they had lost not only memories of trauma, but also any sense of who they were or why they were there. At least four of them died in the room. Between 1964 and 1972, hundreds of women were treated in the now-shuttered ward of the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children. A group of survivors, now in their 60s and 70s, have come forward to share their stories and advocate for change." --
Subjects: True crime stories.; Biographies.; Sargant, William Walters.; Psychiatrists.; Hoaxes.; Deception.; Frontal lobotomy.; Electroconvulsive therapy.; Sleep therapy.; Psychotherapy patients.; Memory.; Psychic trauma.; Involuntary treatment.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 8
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Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter / by Larson, Kate Clifford,author.(CARDINAL)544666;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A home birth -- The making of a mother -- Slipping behind -- Five schools -- Brief haven in England -- War on the Kennedy home front -- November 1941 -- Rosemary gone -- Rosemary made the difference.The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
Subjects: Biographies.; Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005.; Kennedy family.; Families; People with mental disabilities; Intellectual disability facilities patients; Developmentally disabled; Frontal lobotomy;
Available copies: 79 / Total copies: 86
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