Therapeutic Tough Love = Modern Day Lobotomy

[dishdutyfugitive]

Special Olympics.

Cool stuff right?

Not really. It's a product of guilt and regret. The parallels to the TBS industry are shocking.
Enter John F. Kennedy's little sister, Rosemary Kennedy.

The Special Olympics was founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962. Shriver’s sister, the late Rosemary Kennedy, had an intellectual disability, and is often credited as her inspiration to create the Special Olympics.

Rose Marie Kennedy (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was the third child and first daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, born a year after the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She underwent a lobotomy at the age of 23, after which she was mentally incapacitated for the rest of her life.

Lobotomy
In 1941, when Rosemary was 23, her father was told by doctors that a lobotomy would help calm her "mood swings that the family found difficult to handle at home". [2] Joseph Kennedy had the procedure performed by neurosurgeon Walter Freeman, director of the laboratories at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., together with his partner, James W. Watts, MD, from the University of Virginia. Watts performed his neurosurgery training at Massachusetts General Hospital and later became chief of neurosurgery at George Washington University Hospital. Highly regarded, Dr. Watts became the 91st president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.

At the time of the surgery the procedure was in its infancy. Freeman and Watts had only performed 65 previous lobotomies. Freeman had no formal training in surgery and did not believe in the practice of aseptic surgical procedures[citation needed]. Dr. Watts, who performed the surgery while Dr. Freeman supervised, described the procedure:

We went through the top of the head, I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside," he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman put questions to Rosemary. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backwards. ... "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." ... When she began to become incoherent, they stopped.—James W. Watts [3]
Instead of producing the desired result, however, the lobotomy reduced Rosemary to an infantile mentality that left her incontinent and staring blankly at walls for hours. Her verbal skills were reduced to unintelligible babble. Rose Kennedy remarked that although the lobotomy stopped her daughter's violent behavior, it left her completely incapacitated. "Rose was devastated; she considered it the first of the Kennedy family tragedies" [4].

Although Freeman performed more than 3,000 lobotomies on individuals with mental illness during his career, [1] today, his lobotomy treatments are viewed as discredited by the mental health community.


 Aftermath
In 1949, Rosemary moved to the St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children (formerly known as St. Coletta's Institute for Backward Children) in Jefferson, Wisconsin, a residential institution for people with disabilities. Due to the severity of her mental condition, Rosemary became largely detached from the Kennedy clan, but she was visited on regular occasions by her sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics and an advocate for the disabled on Rosemary's behalf. Joe Kennedy also made donations to philanthropic agencies that he founded to help people with developmental disabilities.

Occasionally, Rosemary was taken to visit relatives in Florida and Washington, D.C, and visited her childhood home on Cape Cod.

Publicly, she was declared to be mentally handicapped.  This was more socially acceptable in a political family than a failed lobotomy."Only a few doctors who worked for the Kennedys knew the truth about Rosemary's condition, as did the FBI", due to a background check of Joe. Joe's attorney told them she had a "mental illness". [5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Olympics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

[TheWho]

That was in 1941.  For the time they got professional advice and did the right thing based on the advice they received.  None of us were there so we dont know the options that were placed on the table.
As more information in the area and studies came to light they might have made different decisions.

People use to think smoking was goods for you back then, helped the digestive tract!  Go figure.

[Anonymous]

That was in 1941.  For the time they got professional advice and did the right thing based on the advice they received.  None of us were there so we dont know the options that were placed on the table.
As more information in the area and studies came to light they might have made different decisions.

People use to think smoking was goods for you back then, helped the digestive tract!  Go figure.

You're a peice of shit. Lobotomies took of thousands of lives.
Your response is that there is a "Learning curve".

If the professionals followed the hypocratic oath, and humans who are labeled "toubled"  weren't reduced to "subhuman" status, where they have the same "rights" and protections as a cow, then they would stop being murdered by your industry