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My Lobotomy: A Memoir Hardcover - 2008
by Howard Dully; Charles Fleming
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- Title My Lobotomy: A Memoir
- Author Howard Dully; Charles Fleming
- Binding Hardcover
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- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Not Avail, London
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9780091922191 / 0091922194
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Vermilion, 2008 A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve.Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. In 1960, he writes, I was given a transorbital, or ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some tests.' It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars. Fellow doctors called Freeman's technique barbaric: an ice pick like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15 percent of the operations Freeman performed) killed…
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