During his visits to the hospital, he learned about a procedure, a "lobotomy" in which, according to the book, a surgeon would drill a hole in the skull and sever "certain connections in the ...

In November 1941, Dr. James Watts carried out a frontal lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy’s brain at a facility in upstate New York. A psychiatrist present at the lobotomy asked Rosemary to tell him ...