A Book Review of the Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai

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Review of book: Jack El-Hai, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness . Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, 2005, 362 pp. ISBN: 0470098309 (ISBN13: 9780470098301): Reviewed by H. Alghzawi. The author of this book, Jack El-Haim, explores one of the dark est chapters of American medicine when Walter Freeman, M.D. a ttempted to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Walter Freeman claimed that lobotomy, a brain operation, reduce s the severity of psychotic symptoms.