Author: | Johnny Heller,Howard Dully |
ISBN13: | 978-1400155361 |
Title: | My Lobotomy: A Memoir |
Format: | txt docx doc lit |
ePUB size: | 1192 kb |
FB2 size: | 1671 kb |
DJVU size: | 1371 kb |
Language: | English |
Category: | Professionals and Academics |
Publisher: | Tantor Audio; MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (November 14, 2007) |
My Lobotomy: A Memoir. Howard Dully (Author), Charles Fleming (Author), Johnny Heller (Narrator). Get this audiobook plus a second, free. This book will show you what really happens after a lobotomy. This book will show you that it's damned hard to kill the human spirit. Howard Dully's unstinting look at the unconscionable lobotomy performed on him at age 12 is really more about growing up in a home without real love, with a father and stepmother with serious issues of their own. It is an eye-opening look at a tragic period in medical history and its misuse by both the medical establishment and caregivers.
My Lobotomy: A Memoir. Unabridged Audiobook. A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve. Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. In 1960,' he writes, 'I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests. It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars. Unabridged Audio Book. Download or Stream instantly more than 55,000 audiobooks. Listen to "My Lobotomy: A Memoir" on your iOS and Android device. Don't have an iOS or Android device, then listen in your browse on any PC or Mac computer. Charles Fleming, Howard Dully. I thought this was an interesting book. Listening to the guy made him sound like he was really a lot more functioning than I imagined. As this was such a NON-exact "science" that I gather there are a HUGE number of outcomes post-op.
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
By: Howard Dully, Charles Fleming. Narrated by: Johnny Heller. What does Johnny Heller bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? Portability. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
In this gut-wrenching memoir, Howard Dully recounts what life was like after he was needlessly lobotomized by an unlicensed physician at the age of twelve at the behest of his abusive stepmother. In 1960, he writes, I was given a transorbital, or ‘ice pick’ lobotomy. Dully had never been crazy, and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. It’s a tale of epic horror, and while Dully’s courage in telling it inspires awe, readers are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts.
My Lobotomy - A Memoir. My Lobotomy - A Memoir. Download (epub, . 0 Mb). FB2 PDF MOBI TXT RTF. Converted file can differ from the original. If possible, download the file in its original format.
Howard Dully, NPR. I highly recommend My Lobotomy: a Memoir, a mentally painful book which made me question how Freeman was allowed to perform such an invasive, horrible, mind-altering procedure, the transorbital lobotomy, so long unchecked.