Topic: Lobotomy

Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an instrument like an ice pick which he invented for the procedure. Inserting the instrument under the upper eyelid of the patient, Dr. Freeman cuts nerve connections in the front part of the brain. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

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Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

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