Lobotomy & Brain Damage
Psychiatry's Legacy
by Gene Zimmer
Psychosurgery is a psychiatric practice which creates permanent and
irreversible brain damage. It is a brain operation in which healthy
brain tissue is intentionally mutilated or removed for the purpose of
behavior control.
After a few ill-fated attempts at the turn of the century, ****tuguese
neurosurgeon Egas Moniz pioneered this psychiatric nightmare in 1935
by stabbing a long, thin blade into the brains of his victims through
holes drilled in their skulls. In ironic testimony to the results of
his work, Moniz was shot and paralyzed by one of his lobotomy victims
in 1939 and, in 1955, was beaten to death by another.
Though Moniz is credited with the "discovery" of the technique, he was
preceded by Gottlieb Burckhardt, the superintendent of a Swiss insane
asylum, who was the first person in modern times to publish the
results of psychosurgery experiments on humans.
Unlike modern psychiatrists, Burckhardt was not restricted by a need
to shroud his intentions in euphemistic terms like "therapy," and
admitted his aim was that "the patient might be transformed from a
disturbed to a quiet clement [insane person]." There was no inention
to "help" the patient. The goal was only to eradicate the behavior
which others found undesirable.
To achieve this, he removed parts of the brain from six human
subjects.
Although one of them died, Burckhardt was not displeased with the
results as several of those who lived apparently became easier to
handle in the asylum wards which, rather than effecting a recovery of
sanity, was his major purpose.
Making docile patients and controllable people is largely the true
goal of psychiatric methods. There is no attempt or intention to bring
about sanity, happiness, causitiveness or repsonsiblity for the
patient. This is obvious by a close study of it's history.
One year after Moniz's 1935 experiment, an American psychiatrist,
Walter Freeman, was using a variation whose main "advantage" was the
rapidity with which a mind could be destroyed. By plunging an ice pick
through the thin layer of bone at the back of the eye socket instead
of through holes drilled in the skull, Freeman could achieve the same
effect as Moniz in minutes.
During his "career," he performed an estimated 3,500 or more
lobotomies, fully aware of the destruction he was causing.
Characterizing lobotomy as "mercy killing of the psyche", Freeman
wrote, "patients =85must sacrifice some of the virtue, of the driving
force, creative spirit or soul." This is not surprising since modern
psychiatric theories all but ignore and deny a creative spirit or
soul, and more recently deny even the mind itself. Minimally, they
completely ignore it in favor of manipulating behavior alone. What
good could ever come from a field whose basic theories deny the very
things which define man as separate from all other creatures - his
mind, spirit and soul? His thoughts, feelings, emotions, hopes and
dreams?
Patricia Derian, during the 1940s a student nurse at the University of
Virginia in Charlottesville, described a typical lobotomy, performed
in an amphitheater with witnessing doctors:
"As each patient was brought in, Dr. Freeman would shout at him that
he was going to do something that would make him feel a lot better.
The patients had been given electroshock before they were brought in;
that's probably why he yelled at them. The shock was the only
medication they received, he gave them nothing for the pain, no
anesthesia, no muscle relaxant.
After the patient was placed on the table, Dr. Freeman would clap his
hands and his two assistants would hold up an enormous piece of green
felt the color of a pool table. That was the photographic backdrop.
Dr. Freeman would direct the placement of lights so that each
operation could be photographed, and he checked carefully to be sure
that the cameraman was ready, that they had a good angle showing Dr.
Freeman with his instrument, that there was no shadow to spoil the
picture. His main interest during the entire series of lobotomies
seemed to be on getting good photographic angles. He had each
operation photographed with the icepick in place.
When all was ready, he would plunge it in. I suppose that was part of
his surgical technique, if there's a technique for such surgery. You
probably have to plunge it in to break through the back of the eye
socket. He lifted up the eyelid and slid the icepick-like instrument
over the eyeball. Then he would stab it suddenly, check to be sure the
pictures were being made, and move the pick from side to side to cut
the brain."
Notice what psychiatry does. It renames brutal procedures as
"surgery", using "technique" and medical "instruments". The guy
slammed an ice-pick into the brains of living human beings! That is
the simple truth of it. All else is playing with words and meaning.
Calling this a "cure" for anything is delusional.
Scheflin and Opton in The Mind Manipulators state that 100,000 people
received lobotomies between 1946-1955, with half of the operations
occurring in the U.S.
The lobotomy victim=92s "sacrifice" was substantial. Psychiatrists Franz
Alexander and Sheldon Selesnick noted that through psychosurgery:
"an area essential to the human being - his personality - is forever
destroyed".
Technically, lobotomy refers to the surgical cutting of nerve
connections between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain. The
frontal lobes are unique to human beings and are the seat of the
higher functions such as love, conern for others, empathy, self-
insight, creativity, initiative, autonomy, rationality, abstract
reasoning, judgment, future planning, foresight, will-power,
determination and concentration. Without the frontal lobes it is
impossible to be "human" in the fullest sense of the word; they are
required for a civilized, effective, mature life. Depending on the
amount of damage done, the effect can be partial or relatively
complete. In a complete lobotomy, the patient becomes obviously
demented with the deterioration of all higher mental functions.
Lobotomist P. MacDonald Tow wrote in 1955:
"Possibly the truest and most accurate way of describing the net
effect on the total personality is to say that he is more simple; and
being more simple he has rather less insight into his own
performanace. The mental impairement is greater in the higher and more
peculiarly human functions. Deprived of their autonomy, initiative, or
willpower, their performance is considerably better in a structured
situation". -Personality Changes Following Frontal Leukotomy
Obviously, there is no concern for the individual's viewpoint,
happiness, success or anything else. The only concern is whether they
keep quiet and don't upset the extremely controlled environment of the
mental hospitals where the surgeries were originally conducted. A
mother said about her daughter, "She is with me in body but her soul
is in some way lost. The deeper feelings, the tenderness, are gone.
She is hard, somehow." A friend says, "I'm living now with another
person. She is shallow in some ways."
Modern psychosurgery sometimes attacks areas beneath the frontal
lobes, in the emotion-regulating limbic region. The effects are the
same with emotional blunting and a more controllable person. Methods
employing electrodes to melt ****tions of the brain have similar
effects with a "weakening of initiative and (the patient's) ability to
structure his situation". Simply, people become more robotic after
damage to their frontal lobes and limbic region. There is no way to
hide the true purpose of this procedure. There never has been and
never will be an attempt by psychiatry to help the person "solve"
their problems to become a more responsible, attentive, productive and
happy person. In fact, brain surgery of this type destroys all chances
of ever honestly "helping" a person in the future with a more mentally-
directed therapy. The only people who benefit are the surgeons,
hospitals and staff who have an easier time handling the person. It's
ALL a matter of control and profits.
This barbaric practice is another example of the type of method
experimented with and endorsed by psychiatry during it's sadistic
development. Look at the results of their methods and don't listen to
their PR and authoritarian verbiage. Remember, only 50 years ago an
entire country of millions of people (Germany) were indoctrinated into
and largely agreed with what was basically a psychiatric-based
viewpoint which led to the destruction of over 6 million lives. Sadly,
people will believe just about anything. Modern man is certainly not
immune to this tendency, especially when psychiatry (as a belief
system) has successfully infiltrated all the major colleges,
goverment, and social services.
Look into their past and current actions yourself. Learn the truth
about their destructive history. Push past all the PR and
authoritarian posturing. What sort of depraved logic takes the simple
inhumanitarian facts of brain butchery and renames it "therapy",
pretending to "help" and "assist" the patient? But this sort of logic
IS psychiatry. The psychiatric "profession" then conducts further
"research" by destroying different areas of the brain, in differing
amounts, using various techniques, and tries to call this "science".
It's a sham, which sadly, too many people fall for.
Above all else, do not allow yourself or others to undergo any of
their supposed "treatments" for any reason. Brain surgery is an
obvious and overt crime against a human being. The practice involves
the intentional destruction of sections of the human brain. Today's
psychistrist continues along his familiar path of human pain and
misery under the guise of "helping". Electric shock is obviously just
as insidious as brain surgery, but psychiatric drugs are not so
obvious and have been packaged and sold as the new "safe" solution to
man's every problem. It is the same game, with the same wolves in
sheep's clothing.
Psychiatry's only and entire approach has been the application of
force to a human being, whether this force be physical (involuntary
commitment, straight jackets, restraints, abuse, torture, brain
surgery), electrical (ECT, shock treatments), or biochemical (drugs).
The aim is always to alter behavior, forcibly, with no appeal to the
person themselves - their mind, thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams,
goals, intentions, responsibility or desires are ignored and even
largely denied by modern psychiatric theories and methods.
Stay away from them and their methods. Steer anyone you know away from
their methods. Once you honestly look and see psychiatry for what it
really is, this will be easy. Psychiatry is a modern day belief system
parading as "science".
Say NO To Psychiatry!
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