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Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was given a lobotomy. He was 56 years old when he found out why. The four decades in between tell a story of profound love and compassion.
In 1960 Howard's father and stepmother delivered him into the hands of the man who had invented the 'ice pick' lobotomy. Expelled from the mainstream medical community, his once-popular procedure now a grisly medical relic, Dr Walter Freeman was eager to turn this temperamental 12-year-old into a submissive boy - especially after hearing the terrible lies his stepmother told about him. Howard, told he was going into the hospital for tests, was instead given electro-shock treatments and a transorbital lobotomy. It took him 40 years to recover.
Howard Dully's escape from that dark place is a voyage of enormous hope and universal appeal.
In 1960 Howard's father and stepmother delivered him into the hands of the man who had invented the 'ice pick' lobotomy. Expelled from the mainstream medical community, his once-popular procedure now a grisly medical relic, Dr Walter Freeman was eager to turn this temperamental 12-year-old into a submissive boy - especially after hearing the terrible lies his stepmother told about him. Howard, told he was going into the hospital for tests, was instead given electro-shock treatments and a transorbital lobotomy. It took him 40 years to recover.
Howard Dully's escape from that dark place is a voyage of enormous hope and universal appeal.
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"Dully has written a forceful account of his survival" (Observer)
"[an] extraordinary memoir" (Mail on Sunday)
"truly stunning" (Publishers Weekly)
"astonishingly free of rancour" (The Times)
"a tale of epic horror...Dully's courage in telling it inspires awe" (Kirkus)
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"[an] extraordinary memoir" (Mail on Sunday)
"truly stunning" (Publishers Weekly)
"astonishingly free of rancour" (The Times)
"a tale of epic horror...Dully's courage in telling it inspires awe" (Kirkus)
A remarkable story of determination and survival with the power of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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- PublisherVermilion
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0091922194
- ISBN 13 9780091922191
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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 them outright. Dully's ten-minute test did neither, but in some ways it had a far crueler result, since it didn't end the unruly behavior that had set his stepmother against him to begin with. I spent the next forty years in and out of insane asylums, jails, and halfway houses, he tells us. I was homeless, alcoholic, and drug-addicted. I was lost. From all accounts, there was no excuse for the lobotomy. Dully had never been crazy, and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. His stepmother responded with unrelenting abuse and neglect, and his father allowed her to demonize his son and never admitted his complicity in the lobotomy; Freeman capitalized on their monumental dysfunction. It's a tale of epic horror, and while Dully's courage in telling it inspires awe, listeners are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts. Seller Inventory # ABE-1708278868318
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