Messing with My Head - Fleming, Charles; Dully, Howard
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The shocking story of Howard Dully who, aged 12 in 1960, was given a lobotomy, arranged by his stepmother. It took him 40 years to recover, and his story is one of survival; a misery memoir with the power of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".
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.

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The shocking story of Howard Dully who, aged 12 in 1960, was given a lobotomy, arranged by his stepmother. It took him 40 years to recover, and his story is one of survival; a misery memoir with the power of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".
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.
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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.