My lobotomy
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Howard Dully and Charles Fleming.
Contributors: Fleming, Charles.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780307381279
Subjects: Dully, Howard, -- 1948-; Psychosurgery -- Patients -- United States -- Biography; Frontal lobotomy -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody, messy, rambunctious, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital--or ice pick--lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn't until his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But he still struggled with one question: Why? Through his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families, talked with one of Freeman's sons about his father's controversial life's work, and confronted his own father about his complicity. And, in the doctor's files, he finally came face to face with the truth.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: June; title: Lou; title: 762 Edgewood; title: Trouble; title: Dr. Freeman; title: Dully, Howard (F: Rodney L.); title: My lobotomy; title: Big enough and ugly enough; title: Asylym; title: Rancho Linda; title: Agnews. Again; title: Homeless; title: Barbara; title: Journey; title: Archives; title: Broadcast; title: One last word.