Book review: Spikes in the brain and a search for answers
September 14th, 2007My Lobotomy: A Memoir. By Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
Review by William Grimes in the New York Times
…at age 12 [Howard Dully] underwent a transorbital lobotomy to cure his supposed psychological problems. Steel spikes were driven through the back of both eye sockets and into his brain to sever neural connections between the thalamus and the frontal lobe. Forty years of misery ensued …
Dully struggles to comprehend why his parents decided to have their son lobotomized, and to grasp the impact of the event upon his life. Grimes believes that
… The lobotomy, although terrible, was not the greatest injury done to [Dully]. His greatest misfortune, as his own testimony makes clear, was being raised by parents who could not give him love.
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