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This is the story of 12 year old Howard Dully. The year is 1960. His stepmother is finding him to be ‘unbelievably defiant' so she takes him to a private California hospital. There he is evaluated by Dr Walter Freeman who diagnoses him with childhood schizophrenia. For this he prescribes a brutal procedure which would alter Howard's life forever - a lobotomy. Dr Freeman performed thousands of these operations across the United States, including on Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister. Julia and Adam hear from Jack El-Hai, journalist, medical writer and author of The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness.Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw Producers: Rufaro Faith Mazarura and Simona Rata Assistant Producer: Mansi Vithlani Executive Producer: Jo Meek Sound Design: Craig Edmondson Commissioner: Dan ClarkeAn Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4.
This month, Minnesota historian Jack El-Hai is seeing a book he published more than ten years ago turned into a Hollywood film and a stage play. His book “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” tells the story of a young army doctor whose job was to evaluate top-ranking Nazi officials — and decide whether they were fit to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.Author Jack El-Hai is in Budapest to observe filming of the movie Nuremberg, which is based on the book. Its cast includes Rami Malek, Russel Crowe and Colin Hanks, the eldest son of Tom Hanks. Jack El-Hai joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer to talk about it.
Newsletters from an abandoned safe deposit box set host Paul Ditty on an investigation to learn all he can about The Silver Chain – a suburban Minnesota swing club from the 1970s – and its members. Minnesota journalist Jack El-Hai paints a picture of what suburban life was like in the 1970s and how this sparked a delayed and secret sexual revolution among middle-aged couples. Paul attempts to reach several of the club's members. No one will talk until finally he reaches Carol. She hangs up on Paul, then eventually agrees to talk. But just as Paul is on my way to Modesto for the interview, an email from Carol's daughter changes his course. Don't forget to subscribe to the Time Capsule feed wherever you listen to podcasts!Links: Time Capsule Substack TimeCapsulePodcast.com Jack El-Hai's ArticleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Newsletters from an abandoned safe deposit box set host Paul Ditty on an investigation to learn all he can about The Silver Chain – a suburban Minnesota swing club from the 1970s – and its members. Minnesota journalist Jack El-Hai paints a picture of what suburban life was like in the 1970s and how this sparked a delayed and secret sexual revolution among middle-aged couples. Paul attempts to reach several of the club's members. No one will talk until finally he reaches Carol. She hangs up on Paul, then eventually agrees to talk. But just as Paul is on his way to Modesto for the interview, an email from Carol's daughter changes his course. Links: Time Capsule Substack TimeCapsulePodcast.com Jack El-Hai's ArticleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"Physicians have a deep well of experiences to draw from in their writing. They witness dramatic episodes of heroism, cures, disappointments, and failures. They see unforgettable scenes, hear devastating words, make difficult decisions, and observe people at crucial moments in their lives. Most importantly, they witness the power of cause and effect – one action producing a resulting action – a building block of fiction, nonfiction, and poetical narratives. Great writing comes out of these experiences. The stresses of the COVID pandemic intensified the need for my students to creatively express themselves. There is more to medicine than science, and physician-writers can feel their doctoring strengthen as they synthesize and imagine experiences and explore on the page what it means to be observant, compassionate, and curious. They regain their original purpose in pursuing medicine as a profession. Complementing their grounding in science, they reclaim their grounding in humanity." Jack El-Hai is a writer and creative writing coach. He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "Why I help physicians write." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info
On the heels of our interview with author Jack El-Hai, who teaches physicians creative writing as an outlet, we have pediatrician, speaker and sci-fi writer Dr. Teresa Fuller. Dr. Fuller received both her M.D. and Ph.D. at Howard University and has been a practicing pediatrician in the Maryland area for more than 20 years. In addition to full-time pediatric practice, Dr. Fuller has been a contributing health writer for The Baltimore Times and Demand Media. She is the author of Change 1 Thing: A Doctor's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss, Disease Prevention and a Lifetime of Incredible Health. She also writes medical thrillers that teeter on the edge of science and science-fiction. She wrote her first novel, Time of Death: The Next Pandemic, way before this pandemic, so you'll hear the story of how she came up with the idea and shopped it around, had it rejected, and finally published. She recently released her second novel entitled The Marked: Extinction which is a young adult sci-fi thriller. We discussed her foray into writing, how she comes up with stories, develops characters, and manages to keep it a hobby, not another to do on your list.
A 70 year old cold case out of Minneapolis is reopened by 2 detectives who lived near the Klein family in their later years... This prompted Author Jack El-Hai to write about this case with the help of the Klein family who he had already been in touch with for many years after coming across an ad in the newspaper where parents were urging the public to help them with information in the disappearance of their 3 sons. This ad was ran in the 90's.. 40 years after the Klein brothers went missing from a park. The grit and determination of this family intrigued Jack, and pushed him to reach out. Through their contact, Jack and the Klein family grew an incredible bond of trust, leading Jack to tell the story of Kenneth, David, and Danny while also bringing light to the way a crime has ripple effects throughout a family.
Jack El-Hai is an award-winning medical writer who coaches and leads workshops for physicians interested in reaping the benefits of writing creatively. We discuss the benefits during the interview, as well as how to get started on ten minutes per day or less, how to get those creative juices flowing and how that annoying clicking sound my partner makes when he drinks his tea can be used as inspiration. He also defines “creative writing,” and it is a lot more encompassing than I thought. El-Hai has led writing workshops through the Center for Humanities in Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, continuing education programs at the University of Minnesota, and the Loft Literary Center, as well as coaching physicians one-on-one in creative writing. He is the author of award-winning books on the history of medicine and a contributor of more than 600 articles and essays to The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Wired, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, and many other publications. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College and taught in the MFA creative writing program at Augsburg University. He can be found at El-Hai.com.
In this episode, we take a deep dive with a medical historian on the history of lobotomies and expand some of the knowledge we have provided in past episodes. For more information on this topic on many others, please see our guest's website at http://el-hai.com/. Into/Out Music: "Last Energy For The Day" by Loyalty Freak Music We do not own the rights to this music. Podcast Artwork: Podcast Logo by Emily Binley Copyright; 2022; Hacked History Podcast; Lucas Jagodzinski.
The 1982 movie Frances tells the story of Hollywood actress Frances Farmer and how her struggles with mental health issues affected her career. We'll be joined by writer and author Jack El-Hai to learn about the film's historical accuracy. Get Jack's Books The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness: https://www.el-hai.com/the-lobotomist The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII: https://www.el-hai.com/the-nazi-the-psychiatrist See More of Jack's Work Special thanks to podcastguests.com for helping to facilitate this interview. Did you enjoy this episode? You can find the transcript and show notes for this episode at: https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/197/ Support our sponsors: https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/advertisers Or get ad-free content and exclusive bonus content by supporting the show directly: https://basedonatruestorypodcast.com/support/ Get a peek at upcoming episodes with the email newsletter: https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/newsletter/ Want a chance to be heard on the show? Leave a voicemail at +1 (405) 334-4672.
Jack El-Hai, history, medicine science, business, author & blogger joins the show to talk about his written work on the FBI file on John Wilkes Booth and why did the FBI investigate him more than 75 years after his death.
NonFicPod with Byrne and Codd is your all-new podcast for bitchin' nonfiction. In this season we're covering everything from the love lives of royalty to the impact of exercise on the brain, from growing up black in a white family to understanding how viruses go, well, viral. In this episode, find out who Emma and Georgie (Byrne and Codd) actually are. As your hosts on this journey we thought it only right to make sure you know who you're signing on with. This series will bring you the finest from writers like Georgina Lawton, Caroline Williams, Dan Smith, Nadia Owusu, and Rosie Wilby. Every fortnight between now and autumn, we'll bring you the inside stories behind the true stories. Brought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd (We Swim to the Shark) and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne (Swearing is Good for You and How to Build a Human), NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our extended cut for Patreon backers, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known, teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and life.Books MentionedJack El-Hai, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental IllnessLindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Kate Fox, Watching the English: the Hidden Rules of English BehaviourJon Krakauer, Into Thin AirMary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex and ScienceMary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversFind Us Online- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/nonficpod- Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod (purchases here support us and independent booksellers.) - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nonficpod- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Hosts: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Producer: Georgie Codd - Transcription and socials: Beatrice Bazell- Composer: Mike Wyer Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, we're pleased to be joined by Jack El-Hai, an award-winning author of nonfiction books that include "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist," "The Lost Brothers," "The Lobotomist," "Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines," and "Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places." As noted on his website, www.el-hai.com, Jack writes books and articles on history, medicine, and science. He also publishes a monthly brief for readers and writers of popular history. In this episode, Jack talks at length about "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist," which tells the story of a military psychiatrist, Dr. Douglas Kelley, and his work with Hermann Göring and other Nazi prisoners in advance of the Nuremberg Trials. Jack also takes a deep dive into the tragic case of the young Klein brothers, who disappeared from their north Minneapolis home in 1951 and were never seen again. Jack tells the story in his award-winning book, "The Lost Brothers." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode Chris and Franki evaluate the probability of an abduction of three boys. Can it happen? Has it happened? The short answer is yes but don't take our word for it Special guest Writer, Author and fellow podcaster Jack El-Hai!Jack's podcast, "Long Lost" is discussed and his journey will bring you to your knees. Join us.Other mentions and co-host, Lillian McLeod (Writer, Director, Editor) with Shift Films Joins us to discuss filming in Hannibal!
Join Wendy as she chats with Jack El-Hai, the author of The Lost Brothers: A Family's Decades-Long Search. This weeks real crime story is about Alisha Sidie.
In the final episode of Long Lost, host Jack El-Hai takes stock of where things stand with the case of the missing Klein brothers, what can be done and what we owe to the family who is still searching for answers.
Topnazisten Hermann Göring mødte under Nürnberg-processen i 1945-46 den unge amerikanske psykiater Dr. Douglas Kelly, der udviklede et tæt forhold. Kelly, som havde arbejdet med krigstraumatiserede soldater, blev sat i spidsen for en række psykiatere, der forsøge diagnosticere sig frem til ondskaben. Det skete ved at interviewe og udsætte Göring og hele rækken af overlevende topnazister som Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Dönitz, Robert Ley, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Keitel mfl., der sad indespærret, for en række psykologiske tests. Det endte dog med, at de næsten alle måtte betale den højeste pris for deres krigsforbrydelser. Var der et fællestræk hos topnazisterne? Hvordan kunne de overtage magten i Tyskland? Hvad karakteriserede dem? Hvorfor handlede de, som de gjorde, og hvordan kunne det føre til, at millioner af mennesker måtte dø under 2. verdenskrig? I programmet medvirker historiker og journalist Ole Steen Hansen, der har oversat bogen ”Nazisten og Psykiateren”, skrevet af den amerikanske journalist Jack El-Hai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10/22 Author Jack El-Hai on his new book "The Lost Brothers" a tale of three young brothers who vanished after leaving their home to go out to play in Farview Park in North Minneapolis.
On this new episode of Minnesota's Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold, I speak with author Jack El-Hai about his book, "The Lost Brothers: A Family's Decades-Long Search". In it, he explores the mysterious disappearance of three little brothers in a Minneapolis park in November of 1951. While the police would consider it a drowning, their parents, Betty and Ken Klein, would never give up looking for their sons. A recent investigation has begun into the cold case, suggesting something far more sinister happened to the boys. Jack also talks about a new podcast set to debut at the end of 2019 that explores the story in further detail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Topnazisten Hermann Göring mødte under Nürnberg-processen i 1945-46 den unge amerikanske psykiater Dr. Douglas Kelly, der udviklede et tæt forhold. Kelly, som havde arbejdet med krigstraumatiserede soldater, blev sat i spidsen for en række psykiatere, der forsøge diagnosticere sig frem til ondskaben. Det skete ved at interviewe og udsætte Göring og hele rækken af overlevende topnazister som Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Dönitz, Robert Ley, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Keitel mfl., der sad indespærret, for en række psykologiske tests. Det endte dog med, at de næsten alle måtte betale den højeste pris for deres krigsforbrydelser. Var der et fællestræk hos topnazisterne? Hvordan kunne de overtage magten i Tyskland? Hvad karakteriserede dem? Hvorfor handlede de, som de gjorde, og hvordan kunne det føre til, at millioner af mennesker måtte dø under 2. verdenskrig? I programmet medvirker historiker og journalist Ole Steen Hansen, der har oversat bogen ”Nazisten og Psykiateren”, skrevet af den amerikanske journalist Jack El-Hai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A follow up of the effects of the air quality on the health of Californians two weeks after the Camp fire in Butte County and the Woolsey fire in Malibu started. Guest: Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University. She is one of the nations foremost experts in adult and pediatric allergy and asthma in the country. Then, The Nazis and the Psychiatrist with Jack El-Hai. Guest: Jack El-Hai is a journalist who covers history, medicine, and science, and the author of the acclaimed book The Lobotomist. He is the winner of the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, as well as fellowships and grants from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Center for Arts Criticism. The post The Effects of the Unhealthy Air on the Health of Californians. Then, The Nazi and The Psychiatrist appeared first on KPFA.
Jack El-Hai is a Minnesota author who has written many books, including The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of World War 2. However, our subject in this episode of Most Notorious is the scoundrel Harry Hayward, famous in Minnesota for murdering Kitty Ging in 1894. Jack El-Hai and I delve into the egotistical mind of Hayward, and discuss the possibility that he was an early American serial killer, preceding H.H. Holmes by five years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Jack El-Hai worries about his own state of mind when he spends time in the files of the psychiatrist who examined Nazi leaders. Jack El-Hai is the author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs Books) and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (Wiley). He has contributed articles and essays on science, medicine, and history to The Atlantic, Wired, Scientific American Mind, and many other magazines. Jack teaches nonfiction in the MFA program in creative writing at Augsburg College and lives in Minneapolis. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of $1 million in cash. Hidden in a coffee can, a set of brass vials housed glass capsules containing a clear liquid and a white precipitate: potassium cyanide. Joining Göring in the detention center were the elite of the captured Nazi regime—Grand Admiral Dönitz; armed forces commander Wilhelm Keitel and his deputy Alfred Jodl; the mentally unstable Robert Ley; the suicidal Hans Frank; the ographic propagandist Julius Streicher—fifty-two senior Nazis in all, of whom the dominant figure was Göring.To ensure that the villainous captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise their mental well-being during their detention. Kelley realized he was being offered the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. So began a remarkable relationship between Kelley and his captors, told here for the first time with unique access to Kelley’s long-hidden papers and medical records.Kelley’s was a hazardous quest, dangerous because against all his expectations he began to appreciate and understand some of the Nazi captives, none more so than the former Reichsmarshall, Hermann Göring. Evil had its charms. THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST-Jack El-Hai
Jack El-Hai joined me today for a conversation about his latest book, The Nazi and the Psychiartrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII. Mr. El-Hai’s book deals with the top 22 surviving Nazi officials and Dr. Kelley, an American Army Psychiatrist who was placed in charge of their mental health. His job was to ready the men for the Nuremberg Trails, but saw an opportunity to discover, if it existed, the Nazi personality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices