Howard Dully during his transorbital lobotomy, Dec. 16, 1960.
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Howard Dully holding one of Dr. Walter Freeman's original ice picks, Jan. 2004.
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Howard Dully is a lobotomy survivor, public speaker, and co-author of My Lobotomy.

Dully's stepmother didn't like her stepson so, to resolve the matter, in 1960, Howard's stepmother took 12-year-old Howard to Dr. Walter Freeman, to change her son's personality via transorbital lobotomy. According to Howard, when his stepmother realized the operation didn't turn him "into a vegetable, she got me out of the house. I was made a ward of the state." (More)

Amazingly, today, Howard Dully is a thriving adult, unlike many of Freeman's former patients. An audio documentary can be heard here.

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