Doctor?". In Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and its 1975 film adaptation, lobotomy is described as "frontal-lobe castration", a form of punishment and control after which "There's nothin' in the face. Just like one of those store dummies." In one patient, "You can see by his eyes how they burned him out over there; his eyes are all smoked up and gray and deserted inside." In Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, the protagonist reacts with horror to the "perpetual marble calm" of a lobotomized young woman. Elliott Baker's 1964 novel and 1966 film version, A Fine Madness, portrays the dehumanizing lobotomy of a womanizing, quarrelsome poet who, afterward, is just as aggressive as ever. The surgeon is depicted as an inhumane crackpot. The 1982 biopic film Frances depicts actress Frances Farmer (the subject of the film) undergoing transorbital lobotomy (though the idea that a lobotomy was performed on Farmer, and that Freeman performed it, has been criticized as having little or no factual foundation). The 2018 film The Mountain centers on lobotomization, its cultural significance in the context of 1950s America, and mid-century attitudes surrounding mental health in general. The film interrogates the ethical and social implications of the practice through the experiences of its protagonist, a young man whose late mother had been lobotomized. The protagonist takes a job as a medical photographer for the fictional Dr. Wallace Fiennes, portrayed by Jeff Goldblum. Fiennes is loosely based on Freeman. See also Bilateral cingulotomy destruction of a part of the brain Bioethics and Medical ethics Frontal lobe disorder Frontal lobe injury Psychosurgery History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom Notes Citations Sources Print Sources Online sources External links My Lobotomy Radio story: Interview with Sallie Ellen Ionesco, lobotomised in 1946 Mental Cruelty: Sunday Times article on lobotomy and contemporary psychosurgery Lobotomy's back: Discover article on cingulotomy 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey. NPR Radio Documentary A Qualified Defence of 'Then': QJM Ten Notable Lobotomies Nobel Panel Urged to Rescind Prize for Lobotomies The Lobotomists: BBC Radio 4 documentary on the history of lobotomy Medical controversies Neurosurgical procedures Ethically disputed medical practices Portuguese inventions