Jack El-Hai is a Minneapolis author whose writing has been published in The Atlantic, Wired, GQ, Discover, Scientific American Mind, and Minnesota Monthly. His books include The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, The Lobotomist, Lost Minnesota, and Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines.
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The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped Walter ... SEE MORE