Many doctors, patients and family members of the period believed that despite potentially catastrophic consequences, the results of lobotomy were seemingly posi

Many doctors, patients and family members of the period believed that despite potentially catastrophic consequences, the results of lobotomy were seemingly positive in many instances or, at least they were deemed as such when measured next to the apparent alternative of long-term institutionalisation.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Prevalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Prevalence Lobotomies do something, unlike the other cases in the article.