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Richard R. Delazar
MD PhD JD MDiv
AKA
“D.R. Delazar”
RIP D.R. Delazar
(1913 - 2013)
D.R. Delazar was an accomplished psychiatrist, psychologist, philosopher, author, reverend, and attorney. At the age of twenty, he graduated with highest honors from the Chicago Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS), obtaining an A.B. in Electro-magnetic Chemical Lobotomization. By twenty-five, he achieved the rank of Senior Lobotomist (not to be confused with his former role as Assistant Geriatric Lobotomist) at the Midwestern Center for Cranial Liberation (MCCL).
Although lauded for his achievements in the field, including the first successful fetal lobotomy, Delazar became disillusioned with his practice. Performing lobotomies by day and writing by night, Delazar spent the next two decades perfecting his first book, “On Progress: The Systematic Destruction of the Unfamiliar” (1962). The hefty two-thousand page polemic introduced Delazar’s pessimistic ideology to the philosophical and medical communities, who derided his work as simultaneously unempirical and overly complex.
By this time, the practice of lobotomization was largely discontinued and Delazar was let go from his practice after performing more than 50,000 lobotomies across twenty-five years. With his newfound freedom he pursued several advanced degrees in a short time-span, earning his M.D., Ph.D., J.D., and M.Div. in the span of ten years. During this period, Delazar continued to write, publishing short stories in sci-fi and horror magazines to supplement his income while working on his more lengthy philosophical texts. Some of Delazar’s most acclaimed works were written in this time, including “Darkest Dreams” (1967) and “The Affair” (1971).
Delazar, Age 20
This website is managed by the friends and family of D.R. Delazar. Est. 2025