Lobotomies and Rosemary Kennedy

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

True Crime

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as Mike and I team up to cover the history of lobotomies and the story of Rosemary Kennedy! I'll get into Dr. Freeman and Dr. Watts, as well as the history of altering the brain physically to treat mental illness. Then Mike will take over with the tragic story of Rosemary Kennedy. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	For centuries, people fail to understand mental illness and intellectual disabilities.
0:39.3	Finally, in the late 19th and 20th centuries, doctors started to make a real effort to better understand the brain
0:47.3	and began experimenting with ways to fix what they saw as mental deficiencies.
0:52.3	Today, we explore the history of lobotomies.
0:56.6	We'll learn about two doctors, Freeman and Watts,
0:59.9	who mastered the procedure,
1:01.8	discuss their failures and a few successes,
1:04.8	and look further into this now barbaric practice
1:07.8	that was once thought to be able to cure brain impairments.
1:11.9	We'll also take a moment to tell the story of Rosemary Kennedy and how a failed
1:16.5	lobotomy forever altered her life. I'm Mike. I'm Ian. And I'm Dave. If you were expecting
1:23.4	another UFO show tonight, stick around. After last weekend's newslectown,
1:29.1	I need another UFO show like I need a hole in my head. This is Necronomapod. The
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