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My Lobotomy
My Lobotomy
Dec 6, 2024 3:46 AM

Author:Howard Dully,Charles Fleming

My Lobotomy

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.

Reviews

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

both moving and revolting... he faces his past honestly

—— Financial Times magazine

Deeply poignant and courageous...exceptionally candid

—— The Good Book Guide
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