It has been a long time since the first lobotomy was performed in the United States in 1936. The last recorded lobotomy was in 1967. By then, the dangerous and controversial surgical procedure was ...

Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally disabled in Jefferson, Wisconsin Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over ...

This terrible need for treatment cleared the path for widespread acceptance of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor Walter Freeman threw ...