Don't Always Believe What You're Told - Even When it's Reported in the New York Times

And don't always believe what you read in the paper - not even in the venerated New York Times.
According to a recently aired, soul wrenching documentary, entitled "The Lobotomist", The New York Times once hailed pre-frontal lobotomy as "surgery of the soul". This was a period of time when the medical establishment viewed severing the frontal lobe of the brain from the thalamus as a groundbreaking treatment for those with agitated depression, dementia, psychosis and other problematic symptoms.
As with many things that turn sour, Dr. Walter Freeman, who became a celebrity physician due to his miracle cure, started operating with good intentions. With no treatments to calm agitated patients in state hospitals, lobotomies promised

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