The orbital lobotomy was a surgery that gained popularity in the late 1940s as a way of treating the most dangerous mentally ill patients in asylums across the country, in fact it won a Nobel Prize ...

More than 20,000 people were housed at the peak of Ireland’s asylum era; survivors say the legacy of psychiatric trauma lives ...

Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system. Dec. 20, 2012— -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental ...