Synopsis

The heart transplant patient’s return to the hospital was marked by a disconcerting return of chest pains, coupled with unsettling shifts in his emotional landscape and personality – a disturbing inquiry into the true nature of what is gained and lost in such a procedure. Shutt found himself confronted by a psychiatrist of unwavering directness and self-assurance. This psychiatrist proposed a radical solution: psychosurgery on a twelve-year-old boy whose life was severely constricted by obsessiv