Psychology Today | 17.10.2026 01:40
Say "lobotomy" and most people picture a patient on a gurney, a dimly lit operating room at the end of a long, empty hallway, and a doctor holding something resembling an ice pick. Surgeons still operate on the brain to treat psychiatric illness, but things are a little different today. It isn't the lobotomy of the 1940s, but it isn't entirely unrelated either. So, are lobotomies still performed today? Sort of.
