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

Anglais · Livre de poche

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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. 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. ...

Détails du produit

Auteurs Howard Dully, Howard Fleming Dully, Charles Fleming, Fleming Charles
Edition Vermilion
 
Langues Anglais
Format d'édition Livre de poche
Sortie 04.06.2009
 
EAN 9780091922139
ISBN 978-0-09-192213-9
Pages 288
Dimensions 127 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
Catégories Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > 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

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