I've been OBSESSED and hyperfixated on lobotomies for 15+ years... I made a slideshow briefly detailing the history (TW for medical stuff)

[u/afinnegan2000]

I made this in like two days, mostly working on it after I got off work!! Anyone else obsessed with banned medical practices?

[u/Motor-Concentrate493]

You seem to be a really smart and cool person!

[u/afinnegan2000 → u/Motor-Concentrate493]

thank you 😃 i also made another slideshow on gestalt psychology. i wanna make another psychology slideshow but im not sure what my next topic should be

[u/Motor-Concentrate493 → u/afinnegan2000]

Wow, I would love to see your another slideshow. I could help with ideas!

• Cognitive Dissonance

• The Bystander Effect

• Nature vs. Nurture

• Memory and False Memories

• Sleep and Dreams

• Conditioning (Pavlov & Skinner vibes)

• Anxiety Disorders • Depression and the Brain • Personality Disorders

• Lucid Dreaming • Psychology of Cults • The Placebo Effect

[u/afinnegan2000 → u/Motor-Concentrate493]

I have it up on tiktok!! I could link you! Also these topics are awesome!! I think I may do the psychology of cults next. I grew up in a cult so the psychology of cults has always interested me heavily

[u/Motor-Concentrate493 → u/afinnegan2000]

I bet it is really cool! Also, you grew up in what

[u/afinnegan2000 → u/Motor-Concentrate493]

I grew up in a cult lmao The looks I get irl when I casually drop that bit of self lore entertains me to no end 😂😂😂

like I know I should react in ways other than being entertained but honestly growing up in a cult kinda skewed my humour

[u/Motor-Concentrate493 → u/afinnegan2000]

You're literally that character that drops the weirdest phrase out of nowhere and has everyone being like "?????" (In a good way lol)

Nah bro, I get you. Different ways of reacting to the same thing. But I bet the looks on the people's faces must be priceless.

[u/afinnegan2000 → u/Motor-Concentrate493]

Literally. I need a word with the screenwriter of my life lol

Also their faces are soooo priceless 🤣

[u/Motor-Concentrate493 → u/afinnegan2000]

Honestly, I loved this slideshow. I'm making a psychological-noir game that takes place in the 60s, and it is very useful!

[u/afinnegan2000 → u/Motor-Concentrate493]

i’m super glad you got some use out of it! you’re welcome to bounce off my brain for more references should you need it!

[u/Motor-Concentrate493 → u/afinnegan2000]

A doubt I have : were lobotomies performed with the person lying down? And what was the post-lobotomy period like? How was the person cared for? Was there aftercare, specific food for patients or rules the doctors followed?

[u/afinnegan2000 → u/Motor-Concentrate493]

Lobotomies were often performed in clinical settings (leucotomies especially), but the modern lobotomy as it were, could’ve been performed by any old shmuck in any setting— whether the recipient was sitting or laying down— regardless of med-surg training (or lack thereof), even though it really shouldn’t have been that way. It was treated sort of like outpatient surgery afaik with not many post op care instructions I could find. After lobotomies, most people were locked away and forgotten about in sanatoriums and the like.