From what I've read, Dr Walter Freeman helped a lot of people live better lives. It might seem a strange form of surgery- having an ice-pick or similar knocked into your brain and then moved around to destroy all the malfunctioning parts, but it did help many people.

Drugs companies, along with movies like One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, led to it going out of fashion. In an ideal world, lobotomies would still be considered an option to treat mental disorders in the long-term, along with shorter-term drug therapies.

There are a lot of people allowed out onto the streets today in Britain under "care in the community", who I'm sure would be much less likely to be problematic if they'd received a lobotomy first.