Trans Allegheny & Lobotomies

E78: Trigger warning for this episode, which is includes discussions of medical procedures, violence, racism, sexism...lot's of unpleasant things. This week, Ivy talks about the history of the infamous (and rumored to be haunted) Trans Allegheny asylum, and the atrocities that took place there. Among the horrors is this locations involvement in the West Virginia Lobotomy Project, which takes us down a rabbit hole on the cruel history behind this medical procedure...

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Sources for this episode were:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkbride_Plan 

https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2434

https://www.mywvhome.com/fifties/lobotomy.html 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014576 

https://www.ranker.com/list/historical-mental-hospital-conditions/genevieve-carlton

https://www.ranker.com/list/walter-freeman-father-of-the-lobotomy/rachel-souerbry 

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.3b29 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2001/02/04/the-lobotomist/630196c4-0f70-4427-832a-ce04959a6dc8/ 

https://midatlanticdaytrips.com/2021/10/what-lurks-in-the-halls-of-transallegheny-lunatic-asylum-at-night/

https://ghostwalks.com/article....s/history-trans-alle