Autobiographies
Subject
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Walter Freeman autobiography
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/014-02
Scope and Contents
Unbound typescript autobiography of Walter Freeman, written 1961-1970, discussing Freeman’s life, Keen
and Freeman families, his father, Walter J. Freeman, and Freeman’s work in neurology, neuropathology,
psychosurgery, and schizophrenia. Notable subjects are: Freeman’s work and disagreement with James W.
Watts on prefrontal and transorbital lobotomy; the second International Neurological Congress (1935);
Freeman’s follow-up studies of lobotomy patients; establishment of the El Camino Hospital...
Dates:
1961 - 1970
