Want to read more about lobotomy? If you’re interested in learning more about the history of the procedure, take a look at Jack Pressman’s book Last Resort, which offers a comprehensive account of lobotomy’s rise and fall in medicine, and Jenell Johnson’s American Lobotomy, which explores the impact of popular culture on the procedure. To learn more about Walter Freeman, the doctor who popularized lobotomy in the United States, Jack El-Hai’s book The Lobotomist offers a readable biography. If you’d like to learn more about lobotomy from a patient’s perspective, listen to this interview with Howard Dully, or read his memoir My Lobotomy.