Episode 487: Walter Freeman

Morbid

Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Comedy, Exhibit C

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

When Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy in 1935, it was little more than a crude surgery developed as a blanket treatment for mental illness that involved drilling into the skull and scrambling the neural connections in the frontal lobe. Less than a decade later, however, American neurologist Walter Jackson Freeman had refined Moniz’s procedure and developed a non-surgical procedure that could be performed in a doctor’s office, which he called a transorbital lobotomy. What he touted as successes, quickly turned into a series of life altering failures...but he kept going.

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0:26.8	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash, and I'm Elena, and this is morbid.
0:32.8	It's morbid in the morning, and I apologize I'm sick, so...
1:01.8	Bitch.
1:02.8	I might sneeze all over you or cough all over you.
1:05.6	That's nasty.
1:06.6	But yeah, I can be taken out in the post-editing process.
1:09.5	It can.
1:10.5	Just know that I sneezed and coughed all over you.
1:12.6	We took it out.
1:13.8	But yeah, so I'm trying to I'm trying to muster up my strength, my strength and energy
1:19.8	right now, because this is a pretty wild case that we're going to be talking about.
1:25.5	It's not like it's not one case, it's a man's career is what I should say.
1:31.7	Okay.
1:32.7	We're going to be covering Walter Jackson Freeman, the father of the transorbital lobotomy.
1:39.4	That little thing, that guy, that little lobotabot, yeah, he's a, he's something, a monster.
1:46.8	He's something.
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