Freeman, Walter

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...

Scope and Contents This small collection of letters from Walter Freeman to two Japanese neurosurgeons, Mizuho Nakata and Sadao Hirose, gives some indication of Freeman's own views on psychosurgery and lobotomy and is also filled with personal information on Freeman's career and family. There are no original items in the collection, only photocopies of original material in the possession of either Franklin Freeman or Sadao Hirose.The 1948 letter to Mizuho Nakata from Walter Freeman discusses a...