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From Publishers Weekly At age 12, in 1960, Dully received a transorbital or ice pick lobotomy from Dr. Walter Freeman, who invented the procedure, making Dully an unfortunate statistic in medical historythe youngest of the more than 10,000 patients who Freeman lobotomized to cure their supposed mental illness. In this brutally honest memoir, Dully, writing with Fleming ( The Ivory Coast ), describes how he set out 40 years later to find out why he was lobotomized, since he did not exhibit any signs of mental instability at the time, and why, postoperation, he was bounced between various institutions and then slowly fell into a life of drug and alcohol abuse. His journeyfirst described in a National Public Radio feature in 2005finds Dully discovering how deeply he was the victim of an unstable stepmother who systematically abused him and who then convinced his distant father that a lobotomy was the answer to Dully's acting out against her psychic torture. He also investigates the strange career of Freemanwho wasn't a licensed psychiatristincluding early acclaim by the New York Times and cross-country trips hawking the operation from his Lobotomobile. But what is truly stunning is

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Author

Dully, Howard; Fleming, Charles; Dully, Howard

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307381262

Category

science

Subjects

Memoir, Psychology, Medical

Rating

3.7 / 5 (8,175 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13