Sentences with phrase «lobotomy which»

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.

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El - Hai describes how neurosurgeons experimented to transform the complicated prefrontal lobotomy into the simpler transorbital lobotomy — nearly an outpatient procedure in which a physician entered a patient's brain through a region above the eye with an ice - picklike tool.

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.

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 `.»