Dr. Schafer brings in a live patient to show at a conference, referring to him as "The Complete All American Deanxietized Man." The patient deteriorates on stage. A Southern doctor wants to kill the black attendants. The scene changes to a courtroom where the doctors are accused of killing the patient by turning him into a large black centipede. The lawyer frightens the jury by describing Dr. Schafer as a man who practices forcible lobotomy or, as he calls it, brain rape. The patient is identified as Clarence Cowie.
Whereas Dr. Benway's medical experiments have been presented in terms of humor and farce, the psychiatric conference lends an air or disturbing reality to this fantasy situation. Unlike Dr. Benway, who acts alone and is personally a very sinister character, Dr. Schafer.....
