junker154: This might be somewhat unrelated, but have you ever watched the movie "Suckerpunch"? The main character (little blond girl) is being nerve stapled at the end by this doctor who put a dagger like pointy stick in her eye. That was being refered as Nerve Stapling, only in some old fashioned way.
Sdfghj: That seems to be a
lobotomy, but I have never heard before this being named as "Nerve Stapling".
That sounds like an orbital transit lobotomy (also known as the "icepick lobotomy") where a doctor basically jams a probe in through the thin bone of the eye sockets and waggles it around a bit to destroy large swathes of the frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex. For a while, orbital transit lobotomy was hailed as a panacea for every type of mental illness, from "chronic female hysteria" to "criminal tendencies." And it leaves the patient so nice and quiet and docile...
