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“had been insulin shock therapy, in which the patient was injected with insulin to induce a short coma; the theory was that regular treatments, a coma a day, might slowly chip away at the effects of psychosis. Then came the lobotomy, the severing of the nerves of a patient’s frontal lobes—which, as the British psychiatrist W. F. McAuley delicately put it, “deprives the patient of certain qualities with which, and perhaps because of which, he has failed to adapt.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“He had a firm rule when it came to relationships, what little experience he had of any that lasted over a month. When it’s over, it’s over. You should never go back.”
― Katerina Diamond, The Secret

“Insane asylums were filled with test subjects who were forced to take cocaine, manganese, and castor oil; injected with animal blood and oil of turpentine; and gassed with carbon dioxide or concentrated oxygen (the so-called “gas cure”).”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“Germans are orderly, Catholics believe in Jesus, Austrians look like Germans only shorter, Jews had to put blood on their doors so that George Burns wouldn’t kill their firstborn sons.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Coming Clean