Some info about what’s a lobotomy: The “ice pick” lobotomy (formally the transorbital lobotomy) was popularized in the 1940s by Walter Freeman. Instead of drilling into the skull, Freeman inserted a thin metal instrument through the eye socket, tapped it into the brain, and swept it side to side to sever connections in the frontal lobes. The procedure was quick and required minimal equipment. Side effects were often severe: patients could become emotionally numb, lose personality, show poor judgment, or require lifelong care. By the 1950s, lobotomies declined rapidly as safer psychiatric medications emerged, and the practice is now considered unethical and obsolete.
