transorbital

The new technique -- called transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery, or TONES

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Known as the transorbital or “ice pick” lobotomy, the crude and destructive brain-scrambling operation performed on thousands of psychiatric patients between the 1930s and 1960s was touted as a cure for mental illness.”

Tropic Thunder Not Being Cut 2008

American doctors used ice picks and local anesthesia....the transorbital lobotomy.

Brain surgery done with a common hardware store power drill. Ann Althouse 2008

But another procedure championed by Freeman was the transorbital, or ice pick lobotomy.

CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006 2006

But another procedure championed by Freeman was the transorbital -- or ice pick lobotomy.

CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2005 2005

Rather, especially after Dr. Freeman abandoned surgical lobotomy for the somewhat hit-or-miss transorbital procedure, I believe that follow-up results would show that some patients were helped, some were harmed, but for most the operation had little effect, one way or the other.

'Killing Cures': An Exchange Chodoff, Paul 2005

As one who was associated with Dr. Walter Freeman as his office assistant in 1945 and 1946 when he was performing transorbital lobotomies in his office, I would like to comment on some aspects of Sherwin Nuland's review of Jack El-Hai's book The Lobotomist.

'Killing Cures': An Exchange Chodoff, Paul 2005

The film, which also stars Bat Out of Hell rocker Meat Loaf Aday, takes place in a small town in the 1950's and follows a mixed-up girl seeking a transorbital lobotomy.

Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film? 2004

The film, which also stars Bat Out of Hell rocker Meat Loaf Aday, takes place in a small town in the 1950's and follows a mixed-up girl seeking a transorbital lobotomy.

Will 2004 Be the Year Tribeca Sells a Film? 2004

Changing Our Minds incorporates a film clip from the late 1940s, now slightly muddy, of a young gay man undergoing a transorbital lobotomy.

Homosexuality and Biology 1997