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. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html