Do you suffer from depression? Have a friend or family member who's schizophrenic? Bothered by a pesky step son who wont behave no matter how much you torment and beat him?
Well hang in there because Dr. Walter Freeman may soon pull up to a mental institution near you in the well equipped van he calls "the lobotomobile" to perform his famous procedure that newspapers have described as "easier than curing a toothache"!
He can perform up to 23 lobotomies a day and he'll have you in an out faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! This procedure doesn't even require hospitalization; take it from the words of the DOCTOR himself who has practiced on countless grapefruits there's no reason to be concerned with "all that germ crap".
This above may sound utterly ridiculous to someone of our generation but during the 40's and 50's the lobotomy was a fad thanks to "Dr." Freeman (I don't want to give him the satisfaction or respect that the term "Dr." implies.). The views above are entirely accurate according to Howard Dully a former patient of Freeman's and author of "My Lobotomy" a New York Times bestseller. Some how Freeman had earned unlimited authority to do whatever the hell he wanted. The thing that scares me the most is THIS IS BRAIN SURGERY. This sick, sick man even performed his firs transorbital lobotomy with literally an ice-pick to poke around a patients brain.
Howard Dully (right) is a surprisingly articulate writer for a man who has had his brains scrambled but his talent is not literary genius it lies more in the art of capturing and exposing a regrettable act in history and the emotions that went with it.
He did this through sharing personal struggles from his own childhood.
The content was so traumatically intriguing that every time I picked up the book I was hooked the same way you can't pull you're gaze away from a car wreck.
After World War II America was understandably left with an overload of people with some serious mental issues and no one wanted to fork up the money to keep them institutionalized which was, in the day, the only known solution. Freeman believed that if people were overly emotional they would develop mental illness, and that by giving them enough brain damage he could cure the problem.
The only drawback to this innovative solution was that it turned some people into zombies. No big deal right? Rosemary Kennedy underwent the same procedure and spent the rest of her life soiling herself while staring blankly at walls.
In the 50's, scientists hit a gold mine and found that drugging up patients may be a niftier solution. It was then that people were able to accept that lobotomies weren't all that great. But is drugging up our children to compromise their brains any more ethical?
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Dr. Walter Freeman can perform up to 23 lobotomies a day and he'll have you in an out faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! This procedure doesn't even require hospitalization; take it from the words of the DOCTOR himself who has practiced on countless grapefruits there's no reason to be concerned with "all that germ crap".
Howard Dully, a former patient of Freeman's and author of "My Lobotomy" a New York Times bestseller, is a surprisingly articulate writer for a man who has had his brains scrambled but his talent is not literary genius it lies more in the art of capturing and exposing a regrettable act in history and the emotions that went with it through sharing personal struggles from his own childhood.
The book was so traumatically intriguing that every time I picked it up I was hooked the same way you can't pull you're gaze away from a car wreck.
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Dr. Freeman scrambles brains with an ice pick approved by medical authorities. Howard Dully, a former patient of Freeman's, is a surprisingly articulate for someone with so much brain damage. His talent in his book "My Lobotomy" lies in the art of capturing and exposing a regrettable act in history through his personal struggle.
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Why was the lobotomobile never pulled over? Dr. Freeman scrambles brains approved by medical authorities. Read Howard Dully's "My Lobotomy".
Nice title! it works really well. clever and gets the point across!
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