« Expression Under Repression | Main | Social Networking 3.0? » Transorbital Lobotomy Transorbital lobotomy is pretty strange: the guy performing the procedure inserts an instrument similar to an icepick above the patient's eyeball through the orbit of the eye, then into the frontal lobes of the brain, then moves the "icepick" back and forth, disabling the frontal lobes. A psychiatrist named Walter Freeman used this procedure on 2500 patients with mixed results. NPR just featured a radio piece by Howard Dully, Freeman's youngest patient (victim?), now 56 years old. I heard the NPR piece, then checked out additional material at NPR's web site. Dully's story is fascinating and touching, a biographical account of his search for himself. This is a great story; if I was in film, I would be working up the "My Lobotomy" script. jon posted this at 11:22 PM |
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It will soon be a book release date is Sept 4 2007 then maybe a movie, But thanks for listening and blogging.
Howard
Posted by: Howard Dully | June 14, 2007 10:25 PM