Walter Freeman
American neurologist who popularized the transorbital ice pick lobotomy
Walter Freeman (American neurologist who popularized the transorbital ice pick lobotomy) is discussed on podcasts in TMT.
Discussed in
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & JungLex Fridman Podcast · Sep 17, 2026
Historian Andrew Scull talks with Lex Fridman about the history of psychiatry, from asylums, eugenics, lobotomy and ECT to Freud, CBT, psychiatric drugs and psychiatry's current crisis.