Our Favorite Undernourished Books of the Year
Our Favorite Undernourished Books of the Year
By L.A. Weekly Books Critics
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 8:00 am
MY LOBOTOMY | By HOWARD DULLY and CHARLES FLEMING | Crown Publishers
Dr. Walter Freeman, a self-proclaimed expert in psychosurgery, once assaulted the brains of 25 women with an icepicklike tool, scrambling their frontal lobes with promises of a “cure” for mental illness - all in one day. Freeman, driving across country in his “lobotomobile,” went on to perform thousands of other surgeries. One patient was 12-year-old Howard Dully, who, with the journalist Charles Fleming, now tells his incredible story, from family rejection (when Freeman failed to “fix” him) to living in mental institutions to dealing with alcoholism, drug abuse and prison. It is in retaking his past that Dully ultimately finds peace, and his place as a kind of laureate for the lobotomized.
By L.A. Weekly Books Critics
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 8:00 am
MY LOBOTOMY | By HOWARD DULLY and CHARLES FLEMING | Crown Publishers
Dr. Walter Freeman, a self-proclaimed expert in psychosurgery, once assaulted the brains of 25 women with an icepicklike tool, scrambling their frontal lobes with promises of a “cure” for mental illness - all in one day. Freeman, driving across country in his “lobotomobile,” went on to perform thousands of other surgeries. One patient was 12-year-old Howard Dully, who, with the journalist Charles Fleming, now tells his incredible story, from family rejection (when Freeman failed to “fix” him) to living in mental institutions to dealing with alcoholism, drug abuse and prison. It is in retaking his past that Dully ultimately finds peace, and his place as a kind of laureate for the lobotomized.