Catcher and the Rye Link

While I was reading Catcher and the Rye, I knew that Holden was in a mental institution. I was curious about how mental patients were usually treated during the time period (1951) and if it was a scary thing or not, so I looked up what insane asylums were like so I could imagine what kind of place Holden was in. This website discusses Lobotomy which was a really popular and dangerous procedure at the time. The 1950's had the highest number of patients in insane asylums. There was this other website that had an essay that talked about the insane asylums and Holden but you had to buy the essay, so I used this one instead (click on "The History of Lobotomy" above blog posts).