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Sixty-five years ago the superintendent of a Swiss insane asylum, Gottlieb Burckhardt, cured a patient of auditory hallucinations (hearing things) by removing part of his brain. Thirteen years ago Portuguese surgeons invented and other surgeons developed the now-popular operation called pre-frontal lobotomy to treat certain types of insanity...
After two years, Stalin called a hait. Yezhov disappeared. Some think he is still in an insane asylum. In 1938, with war threatening in Europe, began the reign of Lavrenty Beria...
...born 31 years ago in Lancashire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very unladylike manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1940 she suddenly went mad, spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum...
...were caught in the cross fire of their family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands. He wanted to commit her to an insane asylum, finally succeeded in imprisoning her in a convent. And so on and so on, through libelous pamphlets, lawsuits, threatening letters, dirty verses pinned on doors, pornographic memoirs, in such detail that readers may find themselves longing for Little Women and A Girl of the Limberlost...
...quit school at 17 and joined the Navy. After World War I he got a job as clerk in a Detroit police court and began to drink. First an alcoholic, then a dope addict, he lost his job, took to forgery, was arrested and finally committed to an insane asylum. Discharged at last, he began the same thing all over again. One night in a Detroit park, he recalls, "I got the jimmies-the D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where he had been given a handout, he asked: "Do you think your Jesus could save me?" An officer advised...