Dec. 10, 2022
Transcription: Lobotomy banned in Soviet as Cruel
Below is a hand-digitisation of the New York Times article reporting the outlawing of lobotomies by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
The United States and Europeans continued the practice for decades after, as late as 1980 in France.
The history of Mental Health institutions, or asylums, are a keen interest of mine and I’ll be posting more with regards to them in future. The artist Louis Wain, who’s artwork is used for the site logo (the two fencing cats), and other artwork around the site was himself sadly a patient of several mental hospitals.