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Neurosurgeons as Presented in the Past: Psychosurgery
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The article, "Turning the Mind Inside Out," which appeared in the May 24, 1941, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, reported on the cutting-edge-for-its-time neurosurgical procedure for psychiatric disorders — lobotomy. Neurosurgeon Dr. James W. Watts, along with his colleague, psychiatrist and neurologist Dr. Walter J. Freeman, played an integral role in promoting psychosurgery in the United States during the early- to mid-20th century.
The following caption accompanied this image in the article:
"Dr. Walter Freeman, left, and Dr. James W. Watts study an X ray before a psychosurgical operation. Psychosurgery is cutting into the brain to form new patterns and rid a patient of delusions, obsessions, nervous tensions and the like.”
Saturday Evening Post article by Waldemar Kaempffert; photography by Harris A. Ewing.
