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  1. Sep 2, 2015 · More than seven decades after JFK s troubled sister Rosemary was left disabled by a disastrous lobotomy, two new books reveal the heartbreaking details of a dynasty’s darkest secret.

  2. Nov 21, 2022 · Liz McNeil. Updated on November 21, 2022 03:44PM EST. More than eight decades ago, JFK's troubled sister Rosemary was left disabled by a disastrous lobotomy ordered by her father. Two books shed...

  3. “At 22, she was becoming increasingly irritable and difficult.” The following year, after being persuaded that a lobotomy would help to calm his daughter and prevent her sometimes violent mood swings, Joseph Kennedy authorized the operation.

  4. Jun 19, 2020 · Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy. The lobotomy – a new 'psycho-surgical' operation that involved separation or removal of pathways between lobes of the brain – was believed to be a cure for a multitude of psychological delinquencies such as alcoholism and ‘nymphomania’ [the term given to uncontrollable and excessive sexual desire].

  5. Oct 3, 2015 · Rosemary Kennedy was a beauty, a debutante, and the daughter of one of America's most glamorous families. She was born with a wealth of advantages as the daughter of Rose and Joseph P....

  6. Originally devised in 1935 by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, the lobotomy involved drilling holes in the skull and using a blade to sever nerve fibers running from the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain. Moniz believed that psychiatric symptoms were caused by longstanding faulty nerve connections.

  7. Jan 19, 2005 · Rosemary Kennedy and the Era of Lobotomy | American Council on Science and Health. By ACSH Staff — January 19, 2005. When Rosemary Kennedy died on January 7, we lost a promising life and one of our last survivors from the era of lobotomy.

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