Transorbital Lobotomy - Pt 2, Clinical Study Of A Catatonic

Year Published: 1950

Creator: University Park

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Follows a 19-year-old male catatonic before and after treatment by transorbital lobotomy. Shows that the patient largely lost his anxious, delusional and hallucinated symptoms after therapy and found employment as a musician and as a salesman. Depicts the operation and recovery in still photography. Concludes with a gross dissection of frontal lobes after death, 11 months post-operatively.


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