As the father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic ...

Lobotomy used to be an accepted form of treatment for people who suffered from mental illness. We play an excerpt from a report on one man's lobotomy that will air later Wednesday on All Things ...

Now there was a time when people with mental problems received a very different kind of intervention. Later today on NPR's "All Things Considered," we're meeting a man named Howard Dully, who went ...