Nobel Prize for Lobotomy and how Rosemary Kennedy is part of this story

The history of psychiatry has never been pretty. We continue to be chemically lobotomized. On a blog from the Toronto Sun Alan Parker takes on some of the dark history. An excerpt from the article which I quote below tells the story of perhaps the most famous victim of the procedure: Rosemary Kennedy was 23... Continue Reading →

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