Editing Lobotomy (section)

==Notable cases==
{{category see also|Lobotomised people}}
* [[Rosemary Kennedy]], sister of US president [[John F. Kennedy]], underwent a lobotomy in 1941 that left her incapacitated and institutionalized for the rest of her life.{{sfn|Feldman|2001|p=271|ps=}}
* [[Howard Dully]] wrote a memoir of his late-life discovery that he had been lobotomized in 1960 at age 12.{{sfn|Day|2008|ps=}}
* [[Josef Hassid]], a Polish violinist and composer, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died at the age of 26 following a lobotomy performed on him in England.{{sfn|Prior|2008|ps=}}
* Swedish modernist painter [[Sigrid Hjertén]] died following a lobotomy in 1948.{{sfn|Snyder|Steffen-Fluhr|2012|p=52|ps=}}
* American playwright [[Tennessee Williams]]' older sister Rose received a lobotomy that left her incapacitated for life; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in some of his works.{{sfn|Kolin|1998|pp=50–51|ps=}}
* It is often said that when an iron rod was accidentally driven through the head of [[Phineas Gage]] in 1848, this constituted an "accidental lobotomy", or that this event somehow inspired the development of surgical lobotomy a century later. According to the only book-length study of Gage, careful inquiry turns up no such link.<ref>{{harvs|txt|last=Macmillan|year1=2000|year2=1999–2012|loc1=p. 250}}</ref>
* In 2011, Daniel Nijensohn, an Argentine-born neurosurgeon at Yale, examined X-rays of [[Eva Perón]] and concluded that she underwent a lobotomy for the treatment of pain and anxiety in the last months of her life.{{sfn|Nijensohn|2012|p=582|ps=}}