Monday, December 29, 2008

Dr. Harlington: Quote for December 29, 2008

In plain language, my "ice pick" technique severs the nerves that deliver emotional energy to ideas. Along with the cure comes a loss of affect... a kind of emotional flattening with diminished creativity and imagination. After all, it is their imaginations and emotions that are disturbed.

However, this patient here will soon be leaving the hospital. Lobotomy gets 'em home.
from: Frances (1982)
Gerald S. O'Loughlin acted as Dr. Harlington
This scene from the movie "Frances" shows actress Francis Farmer (played by Jessica Lang) getting a Lobotomy. The real-life surgeon that actually performed such lobotomies was named Walter Freeman. The fact that he actually performed a lobotomy on Francis Farmer, as shown in the movie, may really be just an urban legend.