Yes it was pretty brutal too.
Some actually were more successful than others, there is a movie about an actress who had it forcefully done called ‘Frances’ which is pretty horrifying, but in real life she went on to appear on TV regularly.
They basically stuck an ice pick into an eye socket and swished it around cutting off the front of the brain.
“They basically stuck an ice pick into an eye socket and swished it around cutting off the front of the brain.”
That explains Pelosi, Hillary!, Mad Maxine, Booker, et al!
Frances Farmer never got a lobotomy, ever, and her family and friends, still, don’t know why that scene of her getting one was included in the film, “Frances”.
“..basically stuck an ice pick into an eye socket and swished it around cutting off the front of the brain....”
I’d read somewhere that the Soviets did that same thing in their “mental institutes” to political dissidents to basically shut them up.
Human beings can be pretty despicable.
“Some actually were more successful than others, there is a movie about an actress who had it forcefully done called ‘Frances’ which is pretty horrifying, but in real life she went on to appear on TV regularly.”
I think you mean Frances Farmer, but I don’t think she ever had a lobotomy done. She had insulin shock therapy, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_shock_therapy
It is a myth, an urban legend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer#Lobotomy_claims