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Old 05-06-2010, 03:25 PM   #1
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Default howard dully's "my lobotomy: a memoir"

this isn't a new story but Dully's is a fascinating memoir.

from npr:
On Jan. 17, 1946, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. On that day, he performed the first-ever transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy in his Washington, D.C., office. Freeman believed that mental illness was related to overactive emotions, and that by cutting the brain he cut away these feelings.

Freeman, equal parts physician and showman, became a barnstorming crusader for the procedure. Before his death in 1972, he performed transorbital lobotomies on some 2,500 patients in 23 states.

One of Freeman's youngest patients is today a 56-year-old bus driver living in California. Over the past two years, Howard Dully has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy.

In researching his story, Dully visited Freeman's son; relatives of patients who underwent the procedure; the archive where Freeman's papers are stored; and Dully's own father, to whom he had never spoken about the lobotomy.

read it/listen to the podcast: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5014080

read his memoir: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/mylobotomy/

howard dully's blog: http://howarddully.vox.com/


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