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A man recounts being lobotomized at twelve and his long struggle to reclaim his life and learn why it happened.
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A man recounts being lobotomized at twelve and his long struggle to reclaim his life and learn why it happened.
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At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, 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...
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Violence & gore
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Ice-pick lobotomy procedure described; medical body horror and lasting damage
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Substance use
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Years of drug and alcohol abuse; addiction after institutions and jail
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Magic & witchcraft
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Critique of mid-century psychiatry and institutional mental-health care
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Stepmother abuse, childhood lobotomy, neglect, institutions; sustained cruelty
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