In 1950 Walter Freeman's longtime partner James Watts left their practice and split from Freeman due to his opposition to the cruelty and overuse of the transorbital lobotomy.
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This transorbital lobotomy method did not require a neurosurgeon and could be performed outside of an operating room without the use of anesthesia by using electroconvulsive therapy to induce seizure.
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This new procedure became known as the transorbital lobotomy, also dubbed the " ice pick lobotomy " because the instrument used, an orbitoclast, was very similar to a common ice pick.
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Transorbital leucotomy ( transorbital lobotomy in the US ) was a technique invented by Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti and taken up by American neurologist Walter Freeman, with whose name it is particularly associated.
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Brock is mentioned in the 2007 memoir, " My Lobotomy " by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming, which describes Dully's experiences before and after undergoing an icepick transorbital lobotomy in 1960, at 12 years of age.
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That there were truths about the subject of mental illness and the use of transorbital lobotomy that were inseparable from the truths that one finds in storytelling rather than the true and false of science .
