Sentences with phrase «lobotomies as»

The facility used straight jackets, electroshock therapy, and lobotomies as methods of treatment for mental illnesses.

Not exact matches

Clearly the disaster of a previous attempt to treat mental illness with surgery — prefrontal lobotomy — has not served as a lesson.

They deserve to be covered for all medical reasons, in this case contraceptives just as you deserve to be covered for the frontal lobotomy that you obviously need.

«Using conversion therapy as «treatment» on children is about as effective as using leeches and lobotomies,» the senator continued.

Some characterize religion in this fashion already, and as we know those women who took vows of poverty — yet lived in Jersey where the cost - of - living is higher than a vow of poverty would accommodate — would have approved of the lobotomy to maintain the «particular level of poverty they enjoyed» (well at least in 1950 — we've cough cough cough cough come cough cough cough cough such a cough long way in the cough field since cough cough cough).

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

Surprisingly, many of Freeman's lobotomies were reported as successful, not only by Freeman but also by some patients and their families, who sent hundreds of letters expressing gratitude.

From there, we disappear into Margot's dream, wherein she wakes as an amnesiac nightclub singer and we drift into a colleague's song about a man (Udo Kier) obsessed with derrieres, and inflamed by a whiplashing id personification known as The Master Passion (Geraldine Chaplin), which culminates in the afflicted man's multiple lobotomies.

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

Told in «An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge» style prior to experiencing a brain - scrambling lobotomy, the action shifts to a cathouse where the girls of the institution in the previous reality become sexy showgirls trained to perform publicly as the chosen eye candy through their sexy dancing and revealing stage outfits.

But as a man (Jon Hamm) is about to give her the lobotomy, she flashes into her imagination, where she's to be sold to the big spender (Hamm), and all the girls who were in the asylum are now dancers / prostitutes.

The good that Ford did stands in clear relief when one reflects on Detroit's history of botched lobotomies and assisted suicides where its foreign wards are concerned, such as the number GM performed on Saab.

In the end, I liked Lobotomy, but it's a heavily flawed game in some areas and doesn't manage to convert some of its thematic ideas into original gameplay mechanics, instead coming off as a Zombicide style game that maybe struggles to completely cement its own personality.

But once you get the hang of everything Lobotomy is a compotent dungeon - crawler style game that can tell some good stories through a variety of scenarios, including such ones as Lesbian Vampire Diaries and Momma's Home Cooked Dinner.

Then, as if seamlessly, she segued into this next sentence: «In the 1980s and «90s, people all over the country filed scores of legal cases accusing parents, priests and day care workers of horrific sex crimes, which they claimed to have only just remembered with the help of a therapist... But as the claims grew more outlandish — alien abductions and secret satanic cults — support for the concept waned... Harvard psychologist Richard McNally called the idea of repressed memories «the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy `.»