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The lunacy of lobotomy

    Walter Freedman (left) with James Watts avidly promoted and performed lobotomies in the United States, leaving behind tens of thousands of victims.

    If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients, it is lobotomy.

    Emil Kraepelin – prelude to mass murder

      Kraepelin bears responsibility for and helped set the stage for the mass murders of Aktion T4 and through his proteges provided the rationale and ‘scientific foundation’ for what became The Holocaust.