Sentences with phrase «lobotomies for»

But I think one day, people will look at thyroidectomies for autoimmune thyroid disease the way we now look at lobotomies for mental health disorders.

My problem with all of this is that it's yet another lobotomy for our political debate, fuelled by the increasingly common spasms of outrage in both traditional and social media.

Christmas - themed «comedies» like «Fred Claus» not enough of a lobotomy for you?

Not exact matches

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

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.

Thinking abilities disabled... check Lobotomy performed, just in case any reasoning faculties are still active... check «GOD H8S F.AGS» T - shirt... check Armed with 2000 year old arguments for invisible old men in the sky that have been refuted on countless occasions... check

So now we are all supposedly waiting for a battle between this god and the talking snake, bad stuff happens, you die, she dies everybody dies and those that believed in the god live for eternity in a lobotomy - like bliss.

From a metaphysical point of view these positions seem to create such a dichotomy between ordinary experience and «reality» that for many the only recourse is a kind of lobotomy which divorces reality from rationality.

For 90 secords (live at 7:55 and 8:55 a.m., on tape at 5:55 p.m.) he races through a breezy, offbeat, impudent, satirical sports report that's broadcast over radio station WLUP: «Hey, Chet Chitchat here with the lobotomy line on sports!

Labour will, unless they suffer some kind of collective lobotomy, ceaselessly hammer away at the prime minister for his patrician background while the country suffers from the business end of cuts.

For a review of a new PBS documentary about the maverick doctor who started the American lobotomy craze, flip over to page 83.

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.

11 A 1949 prize in medicine went to António Egas Moniz for another debatable breakthrough, the lobotomy.

Crawley believes there is room for growth, whereas Naehring is convinced of the practice of lobotomy.

But that one - two punch in 2011 had people examining Green's head for lobotomy scars.

Snyder takes the premise seriously, ordering up lobotomies, murders, near - rapes, and general torment to sustain the picture's sobriety, only there's no thematic urge for the film to cling to.

Checking off a list, there are maybe three substances the human body produces that aren't exploited for cheap laughs during the course of Along Came Polly, fashioning a weird entendre out of its title and providing a little fascination at how a four - year - old's delight in excretion is poised to gross millions of dollars this weekend; ideally, only demographics incapable of buying tickets in the first place (lobotomy subjects, toddlers) will be able to brush off the screaming inadequacies of the picture.

While the scenario designs might be the strongest part of the game, it's this weapon and skill management that is, for me, is probably Lobotomy at its most interesting.

Previous Lobotomy titles include: Microsoft Soccer, Powerslave (Exhumed in Japan) for the PC, Sega Saturn, and Sony Playstation, Duke Nukem and Quake for the Sega Saturn.

«Most of what passes for movie poster art these days are just Photoshopped pictures of actors striking saucy poses and staring at us like a troop of lobotomy victims,» director Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption) once told the L.A. Times.

First Monday in October AM: Prepped for annual intellectual lobotomy PM: Gnu yam pump.

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 `.»