While working on
Shutter Island, producer
Brad Fischer, writer
Laeta Kalogridis and star Leonardo DiCaprio were all taken with
Jack El-Hai's book
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. The tome is a history of
Walter Freeman, the Doctor Who was the first proponent of the frontol lobotomy in the United States. He developed the trans-orbital lobotomy method, using a tool ...