My Lobotomy: Based On Memoir And PBS Documentary
Lobotomy
MY LOBOTOMY ASSIGNMENT: Based on Memoir and PBS Documentary
Why do you think it was possible for the medical community to allow Freeman to access power to perform a procedure that was not scientifically supported during the 1950’s & 1960’s? What aspects of American culture and the American medical world do you think allowed and supported a procedure that involved sticking an 8 inch metal ice pick through the eye sockets and into the brain—literally rearranging frontal lobe tissue—to be performed?
I have no idea why this was going on for as long as it lasted. They saw what appeared to them as improvement. There wasn't many answers to the medical society and anything that seemed to be working, was probably the greatest …show more content…
O.D.D is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures. According to his step mother, the behavior seems to be a personal issue towards the step mom. When one's mother dies at a young age, a new stepmother may cause the child to dislike them thus cause inapproiate behavior towards the new mother. Howard seemed like many 12 years boys out there but the stepmother just instantly disliked the child. Howard was just put in a bad situation and this was the “cure” for any disorder at the time and of course the mother was all for it because it would alter his personality. I believe that if Howard was just raised from a different mother, he was of been a normal teenager.
Why do you think Freeman fabricated the diagnosis of schizophrenia for Dully? Do you think this was merely justification to perform the lobotomy or do you think this actually reflects misconceptions about schizophrenia during the time Dully was growing up?
I believe Freeman probably did it for both reasons. Freeman, during the time, was probably wanting the fame of the lobotomy, by performing the lobotomy on a twelve year old, and trying to show the world that lobotomy precedures can even be performed on young ages. Dully's mom didn't help either. Explaining symptoms that could be perceived as schizophrenia, even though they really didn't seem like they were behaviors of schizophrenia, could be enough reason for a man that wants to prove his precedure
MY LOBOTOMY ASSIGNMENT: Based on Memoir and PBS Documentary
Why do you think it was possible for the medical community to allow Freeman to access power to perform a procedure that was not scientifically supported during the 1950’s & 1960’s? What aspects of American culture and the American medical world do you think allowed and supported a procedure that involved sticking an 8 inch metal ice pick through the eye sockets and into the brain—literally rearranging frontal lobe tissue—to be performed?
I have no idea why this was going on for as long as it lasted. They saw what appeared to them as improvement. There wasn't many answers to the medical society and anything that seemed to be working, was probably the greatest …show more content…
O.D.D is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures. According to his step mother, the behavior seems to be a personal issue towards the step mom. When one's mother dies at a young age, a new stepmother may cause the child to dislike them thus cause inapproiate behavior towards the new mother. Howard seemed like many 12 years boys out there but the stepmother just instantly disliked the child. Howard was just put in a bad situation and this was the “cure” for any disorder at the time and of course the mother was all for it because it would alter his personality. I believe that if Howard was just raised from a different mother, he was of been a normal teenager.
Why do you think Freeman fabricated the diagnosis of schizophrenia for Dully? Do you think this was merely justification to perform the lobotomy or do you think this actually reflects misconceptions about schizophrenia during the time Dully was growing up?
I believe Freeman probably did it for both reasons. Freeman, during the time, was probably wanting the fame of the lobotomy, by performing the lobotomy on a twelve year old, and trying to show the world that lobotomy precedures can even be performed on young ages. Dully's mom didn't help either. Explaining symptoms that could be perceived as schizophrenia, even though they really didn't seem like they were behaviors of schizophrenia, could be enough reason for a man that wants to prove his precedure