Free Event

Wednesday, October 29
Book Talk:
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the 
World of Mental Illness
Time: Noon
Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond
Author Jack El–Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of neurologist 
and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS documentary The 
Lobotomist. El–Hai, whose work is based in part on archival research in 
Freeman's personal papers at the George Washington University, takes readers 
into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine—the desperate attempt 
to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help 
during the middle decades of the 20th century, before the introduction of 
effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book sale and signing will 
follow the talk.

This event is sponsored by the Library of Virginia Foundation, VCU Libraries, 
and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in celebration of Archives 
Month in Virginia.

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