Messing With My Head - The Shocking True Story of My Lobotomy

Informationen zum Autor Howard Dully was born in 1948. At the age of 12! he became one of the youngest victims of the ice pick lobotomy. It would take him 40 years to recover. Abandoned by his family within a year of surgery! Howard was institutionalised in his teens! incarcerated in his twenties! and homeless and alcoholic in his thirties. But in his forties! in love with a woman who was determined to have a life with him! Howard got sober! got married! got a degree and emerged into a kind of normalcy. He is now a bus driver! who lives happily with his wife in California. This is his first book. Helping Howard tell his story is journalist and writer Charles Fleming! former Newsweek staff writer and Vanity Fair contributor. Klappentext Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was given a 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. Zusammenfassung Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was given a 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.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Dully, Howard Fleming Dully, Charles Fleming, Fleming Charles
• Publisher: Vermilion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9780091922139
• ISBN: 978-0-09-192213-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; MEDICAL / Ethics, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct