psychosurgery that attracted Sargant. He was a performer. The American was an eccentric showman, sporting a cane, Texas sombrero and goatee beard. During his neurology lectures and brain dissections – so popular that students brought along their girlfriends – he often drew on the blackboard with both hands. On Saturday mornings, he would wheel out troubled patients and discuss their neurological diseases in front of them, sometimes even imitating their gait. A few years earlier, in 1933, Freeman had had a nervous breakdown while writing a book on neuropathology. Waking at 4.30 a.m. every day
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