tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267583042024-03-07T21:45:15.565-08:00My LobotomyBook Signings and Appearances for Howard DullyHoward Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-24248676954094633252016-11-22T19:56:00.001-08:002016-11-22T19:56:24.644-08:00Author reads from his book My Lobotomy<iframe width="459" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cW_dNktNFRA" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-63284398233757904102011-11-27T16:54:00.001-08:002013-02-16T19:32:58.638-08:00What is a Lobotomy you say ?<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading">
Lobotomy</h1>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitoclast" title="Orbitoclast">Orbitoclast</a>, used in transorbital lobotomy<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup></td>
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<b>Lobotomy</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">λοβός – <i>lobos</i></span>: "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe" title="Frontal lobe">lobe</a> (of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain" title="Human brain">brain</a>)"; τομή – <i>tomē</i>: "cut/slice") is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosurgical" title="Neurosurgical">neurosurgical</a> procedure, a form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosurgery" title="Psychosurgery">psychosurgery</a>, also known as a <b>leukotomy</b> or <b>leucotomy</b> (from the Greek λευκός – <i>leukos</i>: "clear/white" and <i>tome</i>). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex" title="Prefrontal cortex">prefrontal cortex</a>,
the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the
procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since
its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two
decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other)
conditions—this despite general recognition of frequent and serious
side-effects. Half of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_for_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine">Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine</a> of 1949 was awarded to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz" title="António Egas Moniz">António Egas Moniz</a> for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic" title="Neuroleptic">neuroleptic</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic" title="Antipsychotic">antipsychotic</a>)
medications were introduced. By 1951 almost 20,000 lobotomies had been
performed in the United States. The decline of the procedure was gradual
rather than precipitous. In Ottawa's <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_hospitals" title="Psychiatric hospitals">psychiatric hospitals</a>,
for instance, the 153 lobotomies performed in 1953 were reduced to 58
by 1961, after the arrival in Canada of the antipsychotic drug <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine" title="Chlorpromazine">chlorpromazine</a> in 1954.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup><br />
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Context"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Context</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Pioneers"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Pioneers</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Gottlieb_Burkhardt"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Gottlieb Burkhardt</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Egas_Moniz"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Egas Moniz</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Walter_Freeman"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Walter Freeman</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Prevalence"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Prevalence</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Indications_and_outcomes:_medical_literature"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Indications and outcomes: medical literature</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Criticism"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Criticism</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Notable_cases"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Notable cases</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Literary_and_cinematic_portrayals"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Literary and cinematic portrayals</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#References"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Context">Context</span></h2>
The lobotomy was one of a series of radical and invasive physical therapies developed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>
in the first half of the twentieth century. These psychiatric
innovations signaled a break with a culture relegating psychiatric
patients to asylums, which had prevailed because most serious forms of
mental illness were treated only unsatisfactorily by extreme measure, or
as unamenable to treatment.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup> These new early twentieth century physical therapies included malarial therapy for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_paresis_of_the_insane" title="General paresis of the insane">general paresis of the insane</a> (1917),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-7">[8]</a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbiturate" title="Barbiturate">barbiturate</a> induced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sleep_therapy" title="Deep sleep therapy">deep sleep therapy</a> (1920), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_shock_therapy" title="Insulin shock therapy">insulin shock therapy</a> (1933), <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiazol" title="Cardiazol">cardiazol</a> shock therapy (1934), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy" title="Electroconvulsive therapy">electroconvulsive therapy</a> (1938).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-8">[9]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-controversial_9-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-controversial-9">[10]</a></sup><br />
The development of the leucotomy procedure by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz" title="António Egas Moniz">Moniz</a>
in 1936, took place at a time when all of the above therapeutic
interventions were extreme and experimental forms of therapy and most
posed serious risks to the health of the patients who underwent them.
Leucotomy was seen by many psychiatrists as no more severe than
therapies such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin" title="Insulin">insulin</a> or cardiazol shock;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-10">[11]</a></sup> these apparently successful procedures conceived for the treatment of patients suffering severe <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illnesses" title="Mental illnesses">mental illnesses</a>
helped to create the intellectual climate and medical and social
warrants that allowed a surgical procedure as radical and irreversible
as leucotomy to appear as a viable and even necessary proposition.
Moreover, Joel Braslow argues that from malarial therapy onward to
lobotomy, physical psychiatric therapies "spiral closer and closer to
the interior of the brain" with this organ increasingly taking "centre
stage as a source of disease and site of cure."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-11">[12]</a></sup> For <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter" title="Roy Porter">Roy Porter</a>,
these often violent and invasive psychiatric interventions are
indicative of both the well-intentioned desire of psychiatrists to find
some medical means of alleviating the suffering of the thousands of
patients in psychiatric hospitals in the twentieth century and also the
relative lack of social power of those same patients to resist the
increasingly radical and even reckless interventions of asylum doctors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-12">[13]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Pioneers">Pioneers</span></h2>
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<span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lobotomy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Gottlieb Burkhardt">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Gottlieb_Burkhardt">Gottlieb Burkhardt</span></h3>
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Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Burckhardt" title="Gottlieb Burckhardt">Gottlieb Burckhardt</a></div>
It is commonly accepted that the first systematic attempt at human psychosurgery was conducted by the Swiss psychiatrist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Burckhardt" title="Gottlieb Burckhardt">Gottlieb Burckhardt</a> in late 1880s.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-13">[14]</a></sup>
Burckhardt operated on the brains of six patients (one of whom died a
few days after the operation) at Préfargier Asylum, cutting out a piece
of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_cortex" title="Cerebral cortex">cerebral cortex</a>.
He presented the results at the Berlin Medical Congress and published a
report, but the response was hostile and he did no further operations.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kotowicz_14-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Kotowicz-14">[15]</a></sup> Early in the 20th century Russian neurologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bekhterev" title="Vladimir Bekhterev">Vladimir Bekhterev</a> and Estonian neurosurgeon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Puusepp" title="Ludvig Puusepp">Ludvig Puusepp</a> operated on three patients with mental illness, with discouraging results.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kotowicz_14-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Kotowicz-14">[15]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Egas_Moniz">Egas Moniz</span></h3>
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The development of the leucotomy procedure was the work of the Portuguese physician and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurologist" title="Neurologist">neurologist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz" title="António Egas Moniz">António Egas Moniz</a>,
who was highly acclaimed for his work on cerebral angiography
(radiographical visual of the blood vessels in the brain) in 1927.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-15">[16]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-16">[17]</a></sup>
Despite having no clinical psychiatric experience and, indeed, little
interest in psychiatry, in 1935 at the Hospital Santa Marta in Lisbon,
he devised the surgery called prefrontal leucotomy which was carried out
under his direction by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosurgeon" title="Neurosurgeon">neurosurgeon</a> Pedro Almeida Lima. He was also responsible for coining the term psychosurgery.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-17">[18]</a></sup> The procedure involved drilling holes in the patient's head and destroying tissue in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobes" title="Frontal lobes">frontal lobes</a> by injecting alcohol. He later changed technique, using a surgical instrument called a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome" title="Leucotome">leucotome</a>
that cut brain tissue by rotating a retractable wire loop (a quite
different cutting instrument also used for lobotomies shares the same
name).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jansson_18-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-jansson-18">[19]</a></sup> Between November 1935 and February 1936 Moniz and Lima operated on twenty patients, publishing their findings in the same year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-19">[20]</a></sup>
Their own assessment was that 35% of the patients improved greatly, 35%
improved moderately and that in the remaining 30% there was no change.
The patients were aged between 27 and 62 years of age, twelve were
female and eight were male. Nine of the patients were diagnosed as
suffering from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder" title="Major depressive disorder">depression</a>, six from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>, two from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_disorder" title="Panic disorder">panic disorder</a>, and one each from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania" title="Mania">mania</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatonia" title="Catatonia">catatonia</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic-depression" title="Manic-depression">manic-depression</a>
with the most prominent symptoms being anxiety and agitation. The
duration of the illness prior to the procedure varied from as little as
four weeks to as much as 22 years, although all but four had been ill
for at least one year. The post-operative follow-up assessment took
place anywhere from one to ten weeks following surgery. The observed
complications were less severe than in Burckhardt's sample as there were
no deaths or epileptic convulsions and the most cited complication was
fever.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-20">[21]</a></sup><br />
The theoretical underpinnings of Moniz's <i>avant garde</i>
psychosurgery were largely commensurate with the nineteenth century ones
that formed the basis of Burckhardt's theories before him. Although in
his later writings he referenced both the neuron theory of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_y_Cajal" title="Ramón y Cajal">Ramón y Cajal</a> and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_reflex" title="Conditioned reflex">conditioned reflex</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov" title="Ivan Pavlov">Ivan Pavlov</a>, in essence he simply interpreted this new neurological research in terms of the old psychological theory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associationism" title="Associationism">associationism</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-21">[22]</a></sup>
He differed significantly from Burckhardt in that he did not think
there was any physical anatomical pathology in the brains of the
mentally ill, but rather that their neural pathways were caught in fixed
and destructive circuits<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-22">[23]</a></sup> As he wrote in 1936:<br />
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[The] mental troubles must have [...] a relation with the formation
of cellulo-connective groupings, which become more or less fixed. The
cellular bodies may remain altogether normal, their cylinders will not
have any anatomical alterations; but their multiple liaisons, very
variable in normal people, may have arrangements more or less fixed,
which will have a relation with persistent ideas and deliria in certain
morbid psychic states.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-23">[24]</a></sup></blockquote>
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The removal of these aberrant and fixed pathological brain circuits,
therefore, might lead to some improvement in mental symptoms. Moniz
believed that the brain would functionally adapt to such injury.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-24">[25]</a></sup>
A significant advantage of this approach was that, unlike the position
adopted by Burckhardt, it was unfalsifiable according to the knowledge
and technology of the time as the absence of a known correlation between
physical brain pathology and mental illness could not disprove his
thesis.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-25">[26]</a></sup><br />
Traditionally, the question of why Moniz targeted the frontal lobes
in particular has been answered by reference to a presentation by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fulton" title="John Fulton">John Fulton</a> and <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlyle_Jacobsen&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Carlyle Jacobsen (page does not exist)">Carlyle Jacobsen</a> at the Second International Congress of Neurology held in London in 1935. Fulton and Carlyle presented two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee" title="Chimpanzee">chimpanzees</a>
who had undergone frontal lobectomies. The operation had had a
pacifying effect on the two primates, who had previously suffered from
behavioral disorders. It has been alleged that this provided the impetus
and inspiration for Moniz to try the same technique on psychiatric
patients.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-26">[27]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-27">[28]</a></sup>
However, as Berrios points out, this conflicts with the fact that Moniz
had told his colleague Lima in confidence as early as 1933 of his
psychosurgical idea. Nor did he mention Fulton's and Carlyle's
presentation as an influence when writing about the procedure in 1936.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-28">[29]</a></sup>
Indeed, as Kotowicz notes, his attention was drawn more to the case
presented by Richard Brickner, at the same conference, of a patient who
had had his frontal lobes ablated and, while experiencing a flattening
of affect, had suffered no apparent decrease in intellect. Brickner had
published on this case in 1932.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-29">[30]</a></sup><br />
Moniz was given the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Nobel Prize for medicine</a> in 1949 for this work.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nobel_30-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-nobel-30">[31]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-31">[32]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Walter_Freeman">Walter Freeman</span></h3>
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The American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurologist" title="Neurologist">neurologist</a> and psychiatrist <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Freeman_%28surgeon%29" title="Walter Freeman (surgeon)">Walter Freeman</a>,
who had also attended the London Congress of Neurology in 1935, was
intrigued by Moniz's work, and with the help of his close friend, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosurgeon" title="Neurosurgeon">neurosurgeon</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Watts" title="James W. Watts">James W. Watts</a>,
he performed the first prefrontal leucotomy in the United States in
1936 at the hospital of George Washington University in Washington.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-32">[33]</a></sup>
Freeman and Watts gradually refined the surgical technique and created
the Freeman-Watts procedure (the "precision method", the standard
prefrontal lobotomy).<br />
The Freeman-Watts prefrontal lobotomy still required drilling holes
in the scalp, so surgery had to be performed in an operating room by
trained neurosurgeons. Walter Freeman believed this surgery would be
unavailable to those he saw as needing it most: patients in state mental
hospitals that had no operating rooms, surgeons, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia" title="Anesthesia">anesthesia</a> and limited budgets. Freeman wanted to simplify the procedure so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_asylums" title="Mental asylums">mental asylums</a>, which housed roughly 600,000 American inpatients at the time.<br />
Inspired by the work of Italian psychiatrist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarro_Fiamberti" title="Amarro Fiamberti">Amarro Fiamberti</a>,
Freeman at some point conceived of approaching the frontal lobes
through the eye sockets instead of through drilled holes in the skull.
In 1945 he took an <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icepick" title="Icepick">icepick</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-33">[34]</a></sup> from his own kitchen and began testing the idea on grapefruit<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-34">[35]</a></sup> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadavers" title="Cadavers">cadavers</a>.
This new "transorbital" lobotomy involved lifting the upper eyelid and
placing the point of a thin surgical instrument (often called an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitoclast" title="Orbitoclast">orbitoclast</a>
or leucotome, although quite different from the wire loop leucotome
described above) under the eyelid and against the top of the eyesocket. A
mallet was used to drive the orbitoclast through the thin layer of bone
and into the brain along the plane of the bridge of the nose, around
fifteen degrees toward the interhemispherical fissure. The orbitoclast
was mallated five centimetres into the frontal lobes, and then pivoted
forty degrees at the orbit perforation so the tip cut toward the
opposite side of the head (toward the nose). The instrument was returned
to the neutral position and sent a further two centimetres into the
brain, before being pivoted around twenty eight degrees each side, to
cut outwards and again inwards (In a more radical variation at the end
of the last cut described, the butt of the orbitoclast was forced
upwards so the tool cut vertically down the side of the cortex of the
interhemispherical fissure; the "Deep frontal cut".) All cuts were
designed to transect the white fibrous matter connecting the cortical
tissue of the prefrontal cortex to the thalamus. The leucotome was then
withdrawn and the procedure repeated on the other side.<br />
Freeman performed the first transorbital lobotomy on a live patient
in 1946. Its simplicity suggested the possibility of carrying it out in
mental hospitals lacking the surgical facilities required for the
earlier, more complex procedure (Freeman suggesting that, where
conventional anesthesia was unavailable, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy" title="Electroconvulsive therapy">electroconvulsive therapy</a> be used to render the patient unconscious).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-35">[36]</a></sup>
In 1947, the Freeman and Watts partnership ended as the latter was
disgusted by Freeman's modification of the lobotomy from a surgical
operation into a simple "office" procedure. Between 1940 and 1944, 684
lobotomies were performed in the United States. However, because of the
fervent promotion of the technique by Freeman and Watts, those numbers
increased sharply towards the end of the decade. In 1949, the peak year
for lobotomies in the US, 5,074 procedures were undertaken, and by 1951
over 18,608 individuals had been lobotomised in the US.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-36">[37]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Prevalence">Prevalence</span></h2>
Most lobotomy procedures were done in the United States, where
approximately 40,000 people were lobotomized. In Great Britain, 17,000
lobotomies were performed, and the three Nordic countries of Finland,
Norway and Sweden had a combined figure of approximately 9,300
lobotomies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-37">[38]</a></sup> Scandinavian hospitals lobotomized 2.5 times as many people per capita as hospitals in the US.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-38">[39]</a></sup> Sweden lobotomized at least 4,500 people between 1944 and 1966, mainly women. This figure includes young children.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ogren2005_39-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Ogren2005-39">[40]</a></sup> In Norway there were 2,500 known lobotomies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-40">[41]</a></sup> In Denmark there were 4,500 known lobotomies, mainly young women, as well as mentally retarded children.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-41">[42]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Indications_and_outcomes:_medical_literature">Indications and outcomes: medical literature</span></h2>
According to the <i>Psychiatric Dictionary</i><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_42-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970-42">[43]</a></sup> published in 1970:<br />
<blockquote>
Prefrontal lobotomy is of value in the following disorders, listed in
a descending scale of good results: affective disorders,
obsessive-compulsive states, chronic anxiety states and other
non-schizophrenic conditions, paranoid schizophrenia, undetermined or
mixed type of schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, and hebephrenic
and simple schizophrenia. Good results are obtained in about 40 percent
of cases, fair results in some 35 percent and poor results in 25 percent
are thereabouts. The mortality rate probably does not exceed 3 percent.
Greatest improvement is seen in patients whose premorbid personalities
were 'normal', cyclothymic, or obsessive compulsive; in patients with
superior intelligence and good education; in psychoses with sudden onset
and a clinical picture of affective symptoms of depression or anxiety,
and with behaviouristic changes such as refusal of food, overactivity,
and delusional ideas of a paranoid nature.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438_43-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438-43">[44]</a></sup></blockquote>
<blockquote>
Prefrontal lobotomy has also been used successfully to control pain
secondary to organic lesions. In this case, the tendency has been to
employ unilateral lobotomy, because of the evidence that a lobotomy
extensive enough to reduce psychotic symptoms is not required to control
pain.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438_43-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438-43">[44]</a></sup></blockquote>
According to the same source, prefrontal lobotomy reduces:<br />
<blockquote>
anxiety feelings and introspective activities; and feelings of
inadequacy and self-consciousness are thereby lessened. Lobotomy reduces
the emotional tension associated with hallucinations and does away with
the catatonic state. Because nearly all psychosurgical procedures have
undesirable side effects, they are ordinarily resorted to only after all
other methods have failed. The less disorganized the personality of the
patient, the more obvious are post-operative side effects. ...<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438_43-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438-43">[44]</a></sup></blockquote>
<blockquote>
Convulsive seizures are reported as sequelae of prefrontal lobotomy
in 5 to 10 percent of all cases. Such seizures are ordinarily well
controlled with the usual anti-convulsive drugs. Post-operative blunting
of the personality, apathy, and irresponsibility are the rule rather
than the exception. Other side effects include distractibility,
childishness, facetiousness, lack of tact or discipline, and
post-operative incontinence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438_43-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Hinsie.2C_Leland_E_1970_p._438-43">[44]</a></sup></blockquote>
<h2>
<span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lobotomy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Criticism">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Criticism">Criticism</span></h2>
As early as 1944 an author in the <i>Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease</i>
remarked: "The history of prefrontal lobotomy has been brief and
stormy. Its course has been dotted with both violent opposition and with
slavish, unquestioning acceptance." Beginning in 1947 Swedish
psychiatrist <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snorre_Wohlfahrt&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Snorre Wohlfahrt (page does not exist)">Snorre Wohlfahrt</a>
evaluated early trials, reporting that it is "distinctly hazardous to
leucotomize schizophrenics" and lobotomy to be "still too imperfect to
enable us, with its aid, to venture on a general offensive against
chronic cases of mental disorder" and stating that "Psychosurgery has as
yet failed to discover its precise indications and contraindications
and the methods must unfortunately still be regarded as rather crude and
hazardous in many respects."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ogren2005_39-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-Ogren2005-39">[40]</a></sup> In 1948 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener" title="Norbert Wiener">Norbert Wiener</a>, the author of <i>Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine</i>,
said: "[P]refrontal lobotomy... has recently been having a certain
vogue, probably not unconnected with the fact that it makes the
custodial care of many patients easier. Let me remark in passing that
killing them makes their custodial care still easier."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-44">[45]</a></sup><br />
Concerns about lobotomy steadily grew. The <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR" title="USSR">USSR</a> officially banned the procedure in 1950.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-45">[46]</a></sup>
Doctors in the Soviet Union concluded that the procedure was "contrary
to the principles of humanity" and that it turned "an insane person into
an idiot."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-46">[47]</a></sup> By the 1970s, numerous countries had banned the procedure as had several US states.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-47">[48]</a></sup>
Other forms of psychosurgery continued to be legally practiced in
controlled and regulated US centers and in Finland, Sweden, the UK,
Spain, India, Belgium and the Netherlands.<br />
In 1977 the US Congress created the National Committee for the
Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to
investigate allegations that psychosurgery—including lobotomy
techniques—were used to control minorities and restrain individual
rights. It also investigated the after-effects of surgery. The committee
concluded that some extremely limited and properly performed
psychosurgery could have positive effects.<br />
By the early 1970s the practice of lobotomy had generally ceased, but some countries continued to use other forms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosurgery" title="Psychosurgery">psychosurgery</a>.
In 2001 there were, for example, 70 operations in Belgium, about 15 in
the UK and about 15 a year at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,
while France had carried out operations on about 5 patients a year in
the early 1980s.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-48">[49]</a></sup><br />
<h2>
<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_cases">Notable cases</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy" title="Rosemary Kennedy">Rosemary Kennedy</a>, sister of President John F. Kennedy, underwent a lobotomy in 1941 at age 23 which left her permanently incapacitated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-feldman_49-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-feldman-49">[50]</a></sup></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully" title="Howard Dully">Howard Dully</a> wrote a memoir of his late-life discovery that he had been lobotomized in 1960 at age 12.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-50">[51]</a></sup></li>
<li>New Zealand author and poet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Frame" title="Janet Frame">Janet Frame</a> received a literary award in 1951 the day before a scheduled lobotomy was to take place, and it was never performed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT_51-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-NYT-51">[52]</a></sup></li>
<li>French Canadian singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alys_Robi" title="Alys Robi">Alys Robi</a> underwent a lobotomy and later resumed singing professionally.</li>
<li>Swedish modernist painter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_Hjert%C3%A9n" title="Sigrid Hjertén">Sigrid Hjertén</a> died following a lobotomy in 1948.</li>
<li>Playwright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a>'s
older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for
life; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in
certain of his works.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-52">[53]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
It is often said that when an iron rod was accidentally driven through the head of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage" title="Phineas Gage">Phineas Gage</a>
in 1848, this constituted an "accidental lobotomy", or that this event
somehow inspired the development of surgical lobotomy a century later.
According to the only book-length study of Gage, careful inquiry turns
up no such link.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-53">[54]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-54">[55]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Literary_and_cinematic_portrayals">Literary and cinematic portrayals</span></h2>
Lobotomies have been featured in several literary and cinematic
presentations that both reflected society's attitude towards the
procedure and, at times, changed it. The 1946 novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_King%27s_Men" title="All the King's Men">All the King's Men</a></i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Penn_Warren" title="Robert Penn Warren">Robert Penn Warren</a>
described a lobotomy, saying it "would have made a Comanche brave look
like a tyro [novice] with a scalping knife." The surgeon is portrayed as
a repressed man who couldn't change others with love but instead
resorted to "high-grade carpentry work."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-meg_55-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-meg-55">[56]</a></sup> In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a>'s 1958 play, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly,_Last_Summer" title="Suddenly, Last Summer">Suddenly, Last Summer</a></i>, the protagonist is threatened with a lobotomy to stop her from telling the truth about her cousin Sebastian.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-56">[57]</a></sup> The surgeon says, "I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her <i>babbling</i>." Her aunt responds, "That may be, maybe not, but after the operation who would <i>believe</i> her, Doctor?"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-57">[58]</a></sup><br />
A damning portrayal of the procedure is found in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey" title="Ken Kesey">Ken Kesey</a>'s 1962 novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_%28novel%29" title="One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</a></i> and its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_%28film%29" title="One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)">1975 movie adaptation</a>.
Several patients in the mental ward receive lobotomies in order to
discipline or calm them. The operation is described as brutal and
abusive, a "frontal-lobe castration". The book's narrator, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Bromden" title="Chief Bromden">Chief Bromden</a>,
is shocked: "There's nothin' in the face. Just like one of those store
dummies." One patient's surgery changes him from an acute to a chronic
mental condition. "You can see by his eyes how they burned him out over
there; his eyes are all smoked up and gray and deserted inside."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-meg_55-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-meg-55">[56]</a></sup><br />
Other sources include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath" title="Sylvia Plath">Sylvia Plath</a>'s 1963 novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar" title="The Bell Jar">The Bell Jar</a></i>,
in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with horror to the "perpetual
marble calm" of a lobotomized young woman named Valerie.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-meg_55-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-meg-55">[56]</a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Baker" title="Elliott Baker">Elliott Baker</a>'s 1964 novel and 1966 film version, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fine_Madness" title="A Fine Madness">A Fine Madness</a>,</i>
portrays the dehumanizing lobotomy of a womanizing, quarrelsome poet
who in the end is just as aggressive as ever. The surgeon is depicted as
an inhumane crackpot.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-58">[59]</a></sup> In the 1968 film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_%281968_film%29" title="Planet of the Apes (1968 film)">Planet of the Apes</a></i>, time travelling astronaut Landon (Robert Gunner) is subjected to a lobotomy by Dr. Zaius (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Evans" title="Maurice Evans">Maurice Evans</a>)
and rendered catatonic in an effort to shield the truth from the Ape
race by covering up the fact that man was once an intelligent being
capable of speech. The 1982 <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopic" title="Biopic">biopic</a> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances" title="Frances">Frances</a></i> includes a disturbing scene showing actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer" title="Frances Farmer">Frances Farmer</a> undergoing transorbital lobotomy. The claim<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-59"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-59">[60]</a></sup>
that a lobotomy was performed on Farmer (and that Freeman performed it)
has been criticized as having little or no evidence supporting it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-60">[61]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy#cite_note-61">[62]</a></sup> In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruhe" title="Unruhe">Unruhe</a>, an episode in the fourth season of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files" title="The X-Files">The X-Files</a>,
a kidnap victim is discovered wandering aimlessly along a road, staring
blankly ahead and not responding to any of her surroundings. She is
hospitalized and a PET scan reveals that a transorbital lobotomy, done
incorrectly, has been performed on her. It is performed on another woman
and Scully herself narrowly escapes the procedure. In the 2011 movie <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Punch_%28film%29" title="Sucker Punch (film)">Sucker Punch</a></i>, Babydoll's impending lobotomy is what drives her to try and escape from the Institute . An ice-pick type <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome" title="Leucotome">leucotome</a>
forms part of the detail around the "S" of the films title,
counterpoised by the final upright of the "H" being a Samurai sword. In
[The Simpsons] 2F03, Treehouse of Horror V. Moe is subjected to a full
frontal lobotomy after undergoing 'Re-neducation' leaving him drooling
and somewhat incapacitated. He keeps the removed piece of brain in a
jar.Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-40618262017444156842009-07-23T22:16:00.000-07:002009-07-23T22:16:28.521-07:00Mind Shadows<a href="http://spiritrambler.blogspot.com/2009/03/walter-freeman-his-ice-pick-lobotomy-on.html">Mind Shadows</a>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-39628234358378657892009-05-13T19:51:00.000-07:002011-11-27T13:23:58.059-08:002009 - The Year in Books: *My Lobotomy, by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming<a href="http://nancyo-2009--theyearinbooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-lobotomy-by-howard-dully-and-charles.html#comments">2009 - The Year in Books: *My Lobotomy, by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming</a>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-45263490032326459572009-05-05T18:33:00.000-07:002009-05-05T18:34:53.732-07:00<a href="http://spiritrambler.blogspot.com/2009/03/walter-freeman-his-ice-pick-lobotomy-on.html">Mind Shadows</a><br /><br />A neat site I came across !!!!Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-87882651959050637602009-05-05T18:32:00.000-07:002009-05-05T18:32:10.070-07:00Mind Shadows<a href="http://spiritrambler.blogspot.com/2009/03/walter-freeman-his-ice-pick-lobotomy-on.html">Mind Shadows</a>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-35935680088979800982009-04-25T11:09:00.000-07:002009-04-25T11:15:49.455-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/SfNTMBOFEAI/AAAAAAAASe8/mNlGtA3hqHs/s1600-h/DSC00449.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/SfNTLYlX-0I/AAAAAAAASek/I2-A8-ZMfH8/s400/DSC00454.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328694239152307010" border="0" /></a>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-685463960685137692009-03-30T21:06:00.000-07:002009-03-30T21:06:45.306-07:00My Last Pry: Howard Dully<a href="http://watertreading.blogspot.com/2009/03/howard-dully.html">My Last Pry: Howard Dully</a>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-36403554654243383362008-12-28T11:35:00.000-08:002008-12-28T11:39:40.806-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/SVfVumnukQI/AAAAAAAARes/e4WLU1DBBQc/s1600-h/My+Lobotomy+%28IMAGES%290021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/SVfVumnukQI/AAAAAAAARes/e4WLU1DBBQc/s400/My+Lobotomy+%28IMAGES%290021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284927684360442114" border="0" /></a><br />This was the family cabin we actually lived in at one time.Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-26439499687697424192008-03-08T01:32:00.000-08:002008-03-08T01:33:07.809-08:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdUflZe-I/AAAAAAAAE3o/ZKbG8JINf5I/s1600-h/Doctor+Pool.jpg"></a> <br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdUvlZe_I/AAAAAAAAE3w/St3df_M03G4/s1600-h/freeman_full.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdUvlZe_I/AAAAAAAAE3w/St3df_M03G4/s320/freeman_full.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdUvlZfAI/AAAAAAAAE34/ipWEDTObRm0/s1600-h/freeman02b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdUvlZfAI/AAAAAAAAE34/ipWEDTObRm0/s320/freeman02b.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdU_lZfBI/AAAAAAAAE4A/tDB1JE0QL2s/s1600-h/Dr+Liechtenstein.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/R9JdU_lZfBI/AAAAAAAAE4A/tDB1JE0QL2s/s320/Dr+Liechtenstein.jpg" border="0" /></a> Those who spiked me<div style='clear:both; text-align:NONE'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-1383299364191203622008-02-07T21:43:00.001-08:002008-02-07T21:43:30.454-08:00<h2><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL">His lobotomy, his recovery, in his words</a></span></b></h2> <p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"> Edward Guthmann, Chronicle Staff Writer </span></b></p> <p class="desc"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Until he was 5, Howard Dully was a happy child. That was the year his mother, June, died of cancer. June was "loving and indulgent," Dully writes, so devoted that his father once said, "I could've dropped dead and it...</span></b></p> <p> <b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><span id="sfgate_addlink"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL#commentform">Add Your Comment</a></span> <span id="sfgate_viewlink"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL">Read Full Story</a></span></span></b> </p> <!--/.header --> <div class="item odd"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=bobmc7">bobmc7</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Did they mention what happened to the Stepmom? She deserves to die slowly and burn in hell for eternity.</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 11:27:47 AM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:9b8eca35-4301-4468-8b2f-b77ac5883c1e'); return false;">Recommend (9)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:9b8eca35-4301-4468-8b2f-b77ac5883c1e'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=glasskey">glasskey</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Agreed with those who bring up the current craze for chemical brain-tinkering to keep the "weirdos" "on track". How much more horrifying is it that the masses of scarred, dulled people walking around in a zombie prozac ambien ritalin god-knows-what-else haze are invisible? Most of these people are canaries in the coalmine, letting us know our world is out of whack. If we'd only listen and appreciate their perspective. Mr. Dully is an angel, and I hope the doc and stepmom are in prison. The dad needs some serious therapy and to make amends.</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 11:31:28 AM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:8a86066c-75e2-490f-ab1f-3b72f72fe8fd'); return false;">Recommend (10)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:8a86066c-75e2-490f-ab1f-3b72f72fe8fd'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item odd"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=glasskey">glasskey</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Update: Walter Freeman, lobotomy doc, dead from cancer 1972. I hope he suffered.</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 11:36:20 AM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:5a0c07fa-b67f-4bd5-84c3-dcf9908b02a0'); return false;">Recommend (6)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:5a0c07fa-b67f-4bd5-84c3-dcf9908b02a0'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=cherita77">cherita77</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">This is how people dealt with "non-conformists" in the family, especially if they had $$$. Mental hospitals for woman that cut their hair and had a cocktail, stayed out late dancing .. shock treatments for men who did not want to go into Daddy's business. Check it out folks, cause that way of thinking has not gone away. Ritalin, etc.. Hey, DON'T TAZE ME, DOC!! Let's get numb and right in line, and in step, and don't disagree and don't make waves and don't wear loud colors, and don't listen to music and don't dance, and STOP THINKING SO MUCH!!! Respect My Authority!!</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 12:07:09 PM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:617e420f-ead9-49ce-a1ff-782de0800029'); return false;">Recommend (4)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:617e420f-ead9-49ce-a1ff-782de0800029'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item odd"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=SoozeeQ">SoozeeQ</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Thank goodness for happy (happier) endings. This is indeed a touching story.</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 12:20:12 PM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:c83212ad-0aee-4e50-ab7a-a20179cef370'); return false;">Recommend (3)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:c83212ad-0aee-4e50-ab7a-a20179cef370'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=lambchop">lambchop</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">These are oral histories of Freeman's lobotomy procedures. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014594</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 12:59:49 PM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:a9022981-3263-442c-8fa6-e26b9eee67ea'); return false;">Recommend (0)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:a9022981-3263-442c-8fa6-e26b9eee67ea'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item odd"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=hmmm">hmmm</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">what kind of sick, crazy person(s) would do this to a child?????? WOW</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 1:05:45 PM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:cf1f9536-7ebb-4d19-a4fd-0c695e607164'); return false;">Recommend (3)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:cf1f9536-7ebb-4d19-a4fd-0c695e607164'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=Mercurius">Mercurius</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">This sort of stuff hasn't stopped. Take a look at Amanda Baggs articles on the mistreatment of autistics. Once you have a neurological or psychiatric label, any level of abuse can be excused as therapy.</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 1:28:29 PM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:7d817393-f096-4503-a612-f72be2c4ca12'); return false;">Recommend (0)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:7d817393-f096-4503-a612-f72be2c4ca12'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <div class="item odd"><h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=Mamacita">Mamacita</a> wrote:</span></b></h4><p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Howardwasright is right. How different is this from drugging kids up on Ritalin? Not to defend the step-mom, she sounds like a terrible person, but this was almost 50 years ago and child rearing changes every 2 years it seems. At that time lobotomies were more acceptable...look even shock therapy is coming back and it's apparently effective for some folks...if you'd mentioned it 10 years ago you'd seen a lot of the same comments as above. Here's a minor more benign example: When I was born 43 years ago my mother wanted to breastfeed me. Her doctor told her it wasn't clean and her mother told her her breasts were too small to supply me with milk. And now everybody is strongly encouraged to breastfeed and even made to feel bad if they can't/won't. Everything changes.</span></b></p><p class="details"><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Posted 9/26/2007 1:43:36 PM</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a class="recommendlabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_SubmitRecomendation('CommentKey:373df763-9336-4c26-9662-f5b226377697'); return false;">Recommend (7)</a><a class="reportabuselabel" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/DDUIS7VP6.DTL&o=4#" onclick="javascript:sfgate_ShowReportAbuse(event,'CommentKey:373df763-9336-4c26-9662-f5b226377697'); return false;">Report Abuse</a></span></b></div> <!--/.item --> <h4><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/contribute/sn/persona?User=zooney22">zooney22</a> wrote:</span></b></h4> <p><b><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">What people will do to each other never ceases to shock, sadden and frighten us. What is of greater impact is that this man survived and shows no bitterness. In fact, his motivation to write the book reflects the humanity and caring for others that help us get through all that shocks, saddens and terrifies us. Thank you Mr. Dully for sharing your story.</span></b></p>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-80184783788364170502008-02-06T20:51:00.000-08:002008-02-06T20:52:07.335-08:00<span style="font-family:Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px;font-family:Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans serif;" ><p>Neurologist Walter Freeman invented and promoted the “ice pick lobotomy” in the mid-20th century. He reportedly performed this controversial procedure on over 10,000 patients who were stricken with all manner of mental illness.</p> <p><img src="http://www.curledup.com/headers/midcurl.gif" align="right" border="0" height="66" width="116" />In 1960, at the age of 12, Howard Dully was one of Dr. Freeman’s youngest patients. Dully’s stepmother insisted on the lobotomy, despite the 12-year-old not demonstrating any tendencies beyond that of a regular young boy. Dully’s father agreed, and the family paid $200 to Freeman.</p> <p><a name="evtst|a|0307381269" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307381269?ie=UTF8&tag=cuupwiagobo0e-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0307381269"><cite>My Lobotomy</cite></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cuupwiagobo0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307381269" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> chronicles Dully’s life before and after his lobotomy. His childhood was cruel, and not just the normal amount of cruel a child of the ‘50s could expect. His stepmother was verbally and physically abusive; his siblings verify the treatment he received as the family’s whipping post.</p> <p>Dully began to act out even more when he was labeled a problem child - petty crimes and a bad attitude were the norm. It is difficult to determine if he was actually a troubled child or just living up to the expectations of his stepmother.</p> <p>His stepmother took him to several psychiatrists who each said Dully was fine; a few even said she was the issue. This was before she met Dr. Freeman. Thanks to the wealth of information available on lobotomies and Freeman’s own mass of copious notes, Dully is able to provide great depth to the doctor’s story and of his personal case file.</p> <p>Dully’s lobotomy went off as expected, and the results were immediately positive. Eventually, though, the positivity faded away when Dully began to have greater issues that further strained his family relationships, found him in and out of “halls” and “centers”, and secured an adult life of instability for him.</p> <p>At the age of 54, with children of his own, Dully set out to discover the circumstances of his young life and the lobotomy that altered it forever. His search led to sharing his story in the media and now with this book. Dully has a flair for the details - every single detail, to be specific, both personal and historical details. Fortunately, the story has an enormous amount of human interest to keep it from being crushed under all the details.</p> <p><a name="evtst|a|0307381269" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307381269?ie=UTF8&tag=cuupwiagobo0e-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0307381269"><cite>My Lobotomy</cite></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cuupwiagobo0e-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307381269" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> is remarkable as a simple survivor story, but also as a commentary on medicine. It answers tough questions and poses important new questions as well.</p> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Arial, sans serif;font-size:78%;"><br /><br />Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com. © <a href="http://www.curledup.com/staffbio.htm">Zane Ewton</a>, 2008</span></span>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-78733229409158086202008-02-03T20:53:00.000-08:002008-02-03T20:54:15.727-08:00<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="byline1"><span style="font-size:180%;">By KURT LOFT, The Tampa Tribune</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="pubdate"><span style="font-size:180%;">Published: January 21, 2008</span></p> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><a name="content1"></a></span> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">TAMPA - Howard Dully was 12 years old when his stepmother opted for the lobotomy.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Dully assumed the procedure was routine and that she knew best how to cure his "mental illness." But she came close to turning the youngster into a vegetable.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"I didn't realize how barbaric it was until later in my life," Dully said by telephone from his home in San Jose, Calif. "As a kid, it didn't really matter to me."</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">The 59-year-old Dully works as a bus driving instructor. Last year, he published a book called "My Lobotomy," which traces what happened that day in 1960 and the impact it continues to have on his life. The story unfolds tonight on an "American Experience" television documentary.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Dully was one of an estimated 30,000 people in the United States who had documented lobotomies in the two decades after World War II. A now-discredited form of psychosurgery, the lobotomy at one time was heralded as a medical breakthrough in the treatment of mental disorders. By any credible scientific standard, lobotomies are crude and horrific, experts say, and often did irreparable damage to the patient's brain.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"I had to deal with a lot of anger about what was done to me," Dully said. "It channeled into rebellion over the years. But I realized anger wasn't going to do any good because I didn't have enough information about what happened to me until much later in my life."</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Dully's anger over his stepmother's decision boiled over to the man who performed the procedure, an American psychiatrist named Walter Freeman. He performed nearly 3,000 lobotomies on people suffering from dementia, depression or other mental conditions - many of whom had never been diagnosed for their problems.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Freeman was 28 years old when he arrived in 1924 at St. Elizabeth's in Washington, D.C., a hospital for the mentally ill. Appalled by what he saw, he dedicated himself to improving the lives of such people. He embarked on a bold experiment to identify and alter the part of the brain he believed caused mental instability.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Freeman began exploring lobotomy techniques in 1936 after reading about a treatment for depression being done in Portugal. Freeman expanded on the idea by drilling holes into the skull, then turned to a more "efficient" technique using long pins resembling ice picks. He conducted his first "ice pick" lobotomy in 1946, separating the thalamus from the frontal lobe of a frantic, suicidal woman. As he predicted, she became docile - but unresponsive.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">As Freeman conducted more lobotomies, he advertised his dramatic results, promoting his technique as a 10-minute medical marvel. Nearly all his procedures included press coverage and before-and-after photo ops. In 1952, he made headlines by performing 25 lobotomies in a single day. Freeman soon enjoyed celebrity.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"He had a kind of perverse need to shock people," Elliot Valenstein, a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan, said in the documentary.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Dully's stepmother read about Freeman and scheduled a consultation about the boy's personality, which she called "unruly and defiant." After examining the boy, Freeman suggested a transorbital lobotomy. Dully was brought to Freeman's office on Dec. 16.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">After rendering the child unconscious with electroshock therapy, Freeman inserted a stainless-steel ice pick underneath the upper lid of each eye, then tapped it with a rubber mallet until it broke through the socket wall. He then wiggled the rod back and forth to cut connections to the frontal lobe of the brain.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"But I didn't have a mental illness," Dully said. "What it was supposed to do, it didn't do at all."</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">While Dully said his lobotomy made little noticeable difference to him physically or mentally as he was growing up, it eventually had an impact on his life, including feelings of abandonment.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"I always felt that something was taken from me, that there was a piece missing because my life has never gone well," he said. "Some of my judgment is not good. I don't have the drive that a normal person has. I've had trouble almost all my life in almost anything I did: work, relationships, money. I wasted my whole life on this one issue. My whole life."</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Freeman continued performing lobotomies long after the development of anti-psychotic drugs. His last procedure was in 1967 on a housewife named Helen Mortenson. The operation was traumatic - Mortenson died of a brain hemorrhage - and Freeman's license to practice medicine was revoked.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Before he died of cancer in 1972, Freeman spent his last years visiting his former patients, some of whom called him an amoral monster. Others had no idea who he was - or what he had done to them.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Dully's story, as well as the career of Freeman, are the focus of the "American Experience" documentary, "The Lobotomist," airing tonight on PBS. The special addresses a dark chapter in modern American medicine and underscores the parallel between ambition and compassion.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">"What amazes me about all this is the medical community didn't have any oversight" on Freeman's work, Dully said. "It wasn't done in an operating room. They gave you electroshock beforehand, then Freeman took the ice picks out of his pocket. They weren't even sterilized."</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">ON TELEVISION</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">The Lobotomist</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="bold">WHAT:</span> An "American Experience" documentary</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="bold">WHEN:</span> 10 tonight</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span class="bold">WHERE:</span> WEDU Channel 3</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">ON TELEVISION</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="bold"><span style="font-size:180%;">Reporter Kurt Loft can be reached at (813) 259-7570 or kloft@tampatrib.com.</span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Howard Dully can be reached at (408) 677-4910 or</span>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-50203671765608244262008-02-03T20:45:00.000-08:002008-02-03T20:49:25.421-08:00<h1 class="firstHeading">Howard Dully</h1> <h3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3> <div id="jump-to-nav">Jump to: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dullycolumn-one">navigation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_DullysearchInput">search</a></div> .. start content --> ..>..> <table style="" class="metadata plainlinks ambox ambox-style"> <tbody><tr> <td class="ambox-image"> <div style="width: 52px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Broom_icon.svg" class="image" title="Broom icon.svg"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Broom_icon.svg/40px-Broom_icon.svg.png" border="0" height="40" width="40" /></a></div> </td> <td class="ambox-text"><b>This article may require <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup">cleanup</a> to meet Wikipedia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">quality standards</a>.</b><br /><small>Please <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard_Dully&action=edit" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard_Dully&action=edit" rel="nofollow">improve this article</a> if you can. <i>(September 2007)</i></small></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>Howard Dully</b> was, at 12 years of age, one of the youngest recipients of the <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transorbital" class="extiw" title="wikt:transorbital">transorbital</a> or "ice-pick" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy" title="Lobotomy">lobotomy</a>. This was a radical treatment for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness" title="Mental illness">mental illness</a> devised and performed by neurologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Freeman" title="Walter Freeman">Walter Freeman</a>. Freeman believed that mental illness could be cured by severing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex" title="Prefrontal cortex">prefrontal cortex</a>, the part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brain</a> that he believed was the cause of overactive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions" title="Emotions">emotions</a>.</p> <p>Dully has taken over 40 years to recover from the surgery; he was institutionalized, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration" title="Incarceration">incarcerated</a>, and was eventually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness" title="Homelessness">homeless</a> and an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">alcoholic</a>. After sobering up and getting a college degree in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Information_Systems" title="Computer Information Systems">Computer Information Systems</a>, he became a State Certified Behind the Wheel Instructor for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus" title="School bus">school bus</a> company in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose%2C_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose, California</a>. In his 50s, he started to research what had happened to him as a child, speaking with his family, relatives of other lobotomy patients, and relatives of Dr. Freeman, and gaining access to Freeman's archives.</p> <p>Dully has written a book about his experience called <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Lobotomy&action=edit" class="new" title="My Lobotomy">My Lobotomy</a>,</i> with the assistance of journalist Charles Fleming.</p> <p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_rock" title="Industrial rock">industrial rock band</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_%28band%29" title="Filter (band)">Filter</a> chose to have one of Howard's childhood photos placed on the cover of their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> debut album, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Bus_%28album%29" title="Short Bus (album)">Short Bus</a></i>.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><a name="Bibliography" id="Bibliography"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection"></span> <span class="mw-headline">Bibliography</span></h2> <ul><li>Howard Dully, <i>My Lobotomy</i>, Crown. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0307381269" class="internal">ISBN 0307381269</a></li></ul> <p><a name="External_links" id="External_links"></a></p> <h2><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline">External links</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/lobotomy.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/lobotomy.htm" rel="nofollow">The History of Lobotomy</a></li><li><a href="http://soundportraits.org/on-air/my_lobotomy/" class="external text" title="http://soundportraits.org/on-air/my_lobotomy/" rel="nofollow">'My Lobotomy' Radio story</a></li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080" class="external text" title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080" rel="nofollow">'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey</a></li></ul> <p class="blogContentInfo"> <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=46163624&blogID=354244131&Mytoken=855A2A0A-C3E2-42A9-9797F2DF3C974139191165847"><b><br /></b></a><a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.confirmRemove&blogID=354244131&Mytoken=855A2A0A-C3E2-42A9-9797F2DF3C974139191165847" onclick="if( confirm('Are you sure you want to remove this blog?') ){return true;}else{ return false; }"><b></b></a> </p> <table class="blog" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="30"><img src="http://x.myspace.com/images/spacer.gif" alt="" border="0" height="1" width="30" /></td> <td> <p class="blogSubject"> Still true today ? </p> <p class="blogContent"><b><span class="txt_1">There's a new sun<br /> Risin' up angry in the sky<br /> And there's a new voice<br /> Sayin' "we're not afraid to die"<br /> Let the old world make believe<br /> It's blind and deaf and dumb<br /> But nothing can change the shape of things to come<br /> <br /> There are changes<br /> Lyin' ahead in every road<br /> And there are new thoughts<br /> Ready and waiting to explode<br /> When tomorrow is today<br /> The bells may toll for some<br /> But nothing can change the shape of things to come<br /> <br /> The future's comin' in, now<br /> Sweet and strong<br /> Ain't no-one gonna hold it back for long<br /> <br /> There are new dreams<br /> Crowdin' out old realities<br /> There's revolution<br /> Sweepin' in like a fresh new breeze<br /> Let the old world make believe<br /> It's blind and deaf and dumb<br /> But nothing can change the shape of things<br /> To come</span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-30566295516508400332007-11-29T13:27:00.001-08:002007-11-29T13:27:58.347-08:00<div class="bucket" id="productDescription"> <b class="h1">Editorial Reviews</b><br /> <div class="content"> <b>From Publishers Weekly</b><br />At age 12, in 1960, Dully received a transorbital or ice pick lobotomy from Dr. Walter Freeman, who invented the procedure, making Dully an unfortunate statistic in medical history—the youngest of the more than 10,000 patients who Freeman lobotomized to cure their supposed mental illness. In this brutally honest memoir, Dully, writing with Fleming (<i>The Ivory Coast</i>), describes how he set out 40 years later to find out why he was lobotomized, since he did not exhibit any signs of mental instability at the time, and why, postoperation, he was bounced between various institutions and then slowly fell into a life of drug and alcohol abuse. His journey—first described in a National Public Radio feature in 2005—finds Dully discovering how deeply he was the victim of an unstable stepmother who systematically abused him and who then convinced his distant father that a lobotomy was the answer to Dully's acting out against her psychic torture. He also investigates the strange career of Freeman—who wasn't a licensed psychiatrist—including early acclaim by the <i>New York Times</i> and cross-country trips hawking the operation from his Lobotomobile. But what is truly stunning is Dully's description of how he gained strength and a sense of self-worth by understanding how both Freeman and his stepmother were victims of their own family tragedies, and how he managed to somehow forgive them for the wreckage they caused in his life. <i>(Sept.)</i><br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. <br /><br /> <b>Review</b><br />"The lobotomy, although terrible, was not the greatest injury done to him. His greatest misfortune, as his own testimony makes clear, was being raised by parents who could not give him love. The lobotomy, he writes, made him feel like a Frankenstein monster. But that's not quite right. By the age of 12 he already felt that way. It's this that makes <i>My Lobotomy</i> one of the saddest stories you'll ever read."<br />—William Grimes, The<i> New York Times<br /></i><br />"Dully's tale is a heartbreakingly sad story of a life seriously, tragically interrupted. All Howard Dully wanted was to be normal. His entire life has been a search for normality. He did what he had to do to survive. This book is his legacy, and it is a powerful one."<br />—<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br /><br />"In My Lobotomy Howard Dully tells more of the story that so many found gripping in a National Public Radio broadcast: how his stepmother joined with a doctor willing to slice into his brain with “ice picks” when he was all of 12 years old."<br />—<i>New York Daily News<br /><br /></i>"[Dully's] memoir is vital and almost too disturbing to bear-a piece of recent history that reads like science fiction… Dully, the only patient to ever request his file, speaks eloquently. It’s a voice to crash a server, and to break your heart.”<br />—<i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i><br /><br />"The value of the book is in the indomitable spirit Dully displays throughout his grueling saga…By coming to grips with his past and shining a light into the dark corners of his medical records, Dully shows that regardless of what happened to his brain, his heart and soul are ferociously strong.”<br />—<i>Chicago-Sun Times</i><br /><br />"Plain-spoken, heart wrenching memoir ..."<br />—<i>San Jose Mercury News</i><br /><br />"Gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of 12.<br /><br />Assisted by journalist/novelist Fleming (<i>After Havana, </i>2003, etc.), Dully recounts a family<br />tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR’s<br /><i>All Things Considered</i>.<br /><br />“In 1960,” he writes, “I was given a transorbital, or ‘ice pick’ lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some ‘tests.’ It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars.” Fellow doctors called Freeman’s technique barbaric: an ice pick—like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15% of the operations Freeman performed) killed them outright. Dully’s ten-minute “test” did neither, but in some ways it had a far crueler result, since it didn’t end the unruly behavior that had set his stepmother against him to begin with.<br /><br />“I spent the next forty years in and out of insane asylums, jails, and halfway houses,” he tells us. “I was homeless, alcoholic, and drug-addicted. I was lost.” From all accounts, there was no excuse for the lobotomy. Dully had never been “crazy,” and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. His stepmother responded with unrelenting abuse and neglect, his father allowed her to demonize his son and never admitted his complicity in the lobotomy; Freeman capitalized on their monumental dysfunction. It’s a tale of epic horror, and while Dully’s courage in telling it inspires awe, readers are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts.<br /><br />A profoundly disturbing survivor’s tale."<br />—<i>Kirkus</i> <br /><br /><img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/orange-arrow._V42752349_.gif" class="icon" border="0" height="9" width="10" /><b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0307381269/ref=dp_proddesc_0/102-6072466-9153720?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books">See all Editorial Reviews</a> </b> </div> </div> <a name="productDetails" id="productDetails"></a> <hr class="bucketDivider" noshade="noshade" size="1"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td class="bucket"> <b class="h1">Product Details</b><br /> <div class="content"> <ul><li><b>Hardcover:</b> 288 pages</li><li><b>Publisher:</b> Crown (September 4, 2007)</li><li><b>Language:</b> English</li><li><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0307381269</li><li><b>ISBN-13:</b> 978-0307381262</li><li><b> Product Dimensions: </b> 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches </li><li><b>Shipping Weight:</b> 15.2 ounces (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/shipping.html/102-6072466-9153720?ie=UTF8&seller=ATVPDKIKX0DER">View shipping rates and policies</a>)</li><li><b>Average Customer Review:</b> <script type="text/javascript"> var reviewHistPing = function() { reviewHistDU.requestUpdate('', '', '', null, null, null, false); 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That was the year his mother, June, died of cancer. June was “loving and indulgent,” Dully writes, so devoted that his father once said, “I could’ve dropped dead and it wouldn’t have made a bit of difference. She had you.” </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">After his mother’s death, neighbours started sewing and cooking, doing laundry for the Dullys. One of them, Lucille “Lou” Cox, became his stepmother two years later. Rigid and punitive, Lou hated Howard. When he was 12, she arranged for the boy to have a transorbital lobotomy. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The surgeon, Dr. Walter Freeman, did the procedure at Doctors General Hospital in San Jose, Calif. After sedating Howard with four jolts of electroshock, Freeman inserted two skewer-like steel knives into his skull, entering through the inside of the right and left eye sockets. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“(He) swirled them around,” Dully writes, “until he felt he had scrambled things up enough.” The lobotomy took 10 minutes to perform. The charge was $200. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">This is the story that Dully, a 58-year-old San Jose bus driver, tells in his memoir, My Lobotomy. It’s a gruesome but compulsively readable tale, ultimately redemptive. Unlike most lobotomy patients — some became vegetables, 15 per cent died — Dully was relatively unscathed. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“The biggest impact it made on me was my self-esteem,” Dully says during a conversation in Jimmy’s, a San Jose coffee shop with early-’60s decor. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“You know, they changed me. They rearranged me. ‘Am I me any more? Am I really crazy and don’t know it?’ These things all go through your mind.” </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Dully is hardly the picture of victimhood. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Six-foot-seven, 330 pounds, he’s a bear of a man with enormous hands, a voice like a cello and the visage of a grizzled biker. Until last year, he wore his mustache super-long and droopy, like Yosemite Sam, and then decided “I was hiding behind it.” </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">He’s on a leave of absence from San Jose Charter Bus while he promotes his book. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">My Lobotomy began as a radio documentary on NPR’s All Things Considered in November 2005. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Producers Dave Isay and Piya Kochhar intended a profile on Freeman but when they found Dully, who had recently started researching lobotomy on the Internet, they fell in love with his story. They decided to focus on him instead, and urged him to narrate the piece in his gentle, resonant baritone. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The NPR piece captures a conversation with Dully and his father, Rodney, a former schoolteacher who was later divorced from Lou. “I was manipulated, pure and simple,” his dad says in regard to the lobotomy. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">But when Howard breaks down and professes his love to his dad, his father answers, “Whatever made you think I didn’t know that? You shaped up pretty good!” He doesn’t say “I love you” back. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“Ever since my lobotomy I’ve felt like a freak,” Dully says at the end of the broadcast. (But) I know my lobotomy didn’t touch my soul. For the first time, I feel no shame. I am, at last, at peace.” </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The response to the broadcast was huge. So many e-mails flooded in that NPR’s Internet server collapsed. Today, Dully says, there’s interest from Hollywood producers to make a TV movie or feature film from his book. “I’d love it, provided it’s done with truth. I don’t want any fictional account making someone out worse than they were or better than they were.” </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">There’s also a playwright in New York who, inspired by the NPR documentary, has written a play about Dully called The Memory of Damage. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Dully, who looks like a Buddha as he sits in his favorite coffee shop, seems to regard the celebrity as a cosmic joke. For someone who spent his life plagued by self-doubts, who says he’s still intimidated by his father, it’s difficult to accept this attention. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“I tease my wife and other people, and say I have a swollen ego,” he chuckles. “But I don’t have any news people camping outside my door. I don’t live in any mansion. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“My idea for writing the book was first to get a little closure — which I find a little selfish, but that’s OK. The other reason was to help people to think about how we treat each other daily. Not just loved ones but everybody. </span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“Something you start here or say here may affect somebody’s whole day, maybe their whole life. Ten minutes of what Freeman did to me has affected me for 47 years.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edward Guthmann writes for the San Francisco Chronicle.</span></span> </p></div> <div class="bannerAd"> <!-- Gary Moe 2 Campaign --> <a href="http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/cclc.cgi?id=1032&paper=107&banner=439&lc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.garymoe.com" target="_blank"> <img style="display: none;" src="http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals/reddeer/pages/ads/NewGaryMoelayout1.gif" alt="Gary Moe 2 Ad Campaign" border="1" /> </a> </div>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-45186937056136730132007-11-12T08:27:00.001-08:002007-11-12T08:27:54.624-08:00<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:-1;color:#000000;"><b>MY LOBOTOMY A Memoir<em>By Howard Dully and Charles Fleming Crown. 272 pp. $24.95</em></b><br /><!-- BREAK --></span></p><hr align="left" color="#cccccc" size="1"> <p> Howard Dully's early life was a catalogue of horrors. His mother died when he was 5, and his father married Lou, a woman with sons of her own. What followed is reminiscent of those gruesome newspaper articles in which one child is singled out to endure all of a family's abuse. Dully didn't die of the neglect he suffered or the beatings he received, but he lost all sense of himself as a worthwhile being. When he was 12, with little protest from his father, Lou arranged to have him lobotomized by the notorious Dr. Walter Freeman, who pierced the back of his eye sockets with an instrument like an ice pick, and then twisted it into his brain. </p> <p>Mercifully, Dully wasn't entirely incapacitated, but he drifted through adolescence, spent time in institutions and on the streets, and was for decades unable to find a permanent job. When he finally found a loving wife and work as a bus driver, he began researching his own story. He gained access to Freeman's notes, talked to his brothers and attempted to question his father (Lou had died by then). In 2005, he was the subject of a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/National+Public+Radio+Inc.?tid=informline" target="">National Public Radio</a> program on lobotomy. </p> <p> Dully's prose is clear, and his story compelling. You can't help admiring his ability to achieve a measure of peace and understanding, and even more the generosity of spirit that allowed him to forgive not only the father who betrayed him but also the unspeakable Lou. ¿ </p> <p> <i>Juliet Wittman teaches writing at the University of Colorado and is the theater critic for Westword, a Denver weekly.</i> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <!-- sphereit end -->Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-35310129832692970702007-10-18T19:31:00.001-07:002007-10-18T19:31:42.918-07:00<h3>From Barnes & Noble</h3><p>In 1960, Howard Dully became a part of medical history. At the tender age of 12, he was lobotomized, making him the youngest of Dr. Walter Freeman's 10,000 patients on the receiving end of the transorbital operation. Freeman's procedure was not only barbaric (he inserted an ice pick three inches into each eye socket), it was perilous: Fifteen percent of his patients died. Forty years after Freeman effectively derailed his life, Dully set out to discover how he became a guinea pig for one of American medicine's worst crimes. An astonishing memoir of self-recovery. </p><h3>From the Publisher</h3><p>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.<br /><br />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 in a bottle. It wasn’t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the “normal” life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why?<br /><br />“October 8, 1960. I gather that Mrs. Dully is perpetually talking, admonishing, correcting, and getting worked up into a spasm, whereas her husband is impatient, explosive, rather brutal, won’t let the boy speak for himself, and calls him numbskull, dimwit, and other uncomplimentary names.”<br /><br />There were only three people who would know the truth: Freeman, the man who performed the procedure; Lou, his cold and demanding stepmother who brought Howard to the doctor’s attention; and his father, Rodney. Of the three, only Rodney, the man who hadn’t intervened on his son’s behalf, was still living. Time was running out. Stable and happy for the first time in decades, Howard began to search for answers.<br /><br />“December 3, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Dully have apparently decided to have Howard operated on. I suggested [they] not tell Howard anything about it.”<br /><br />Through his research, Howard metother lobotomy patients and their families, talked with one of Freeman’s sons about his father’s controversial life’s work, and confronted Rodney about his complicity. And, in the archive where the doctor’s files are stored, he finally came face to face with the truth.<br /><br />Revealing what happened to a child no one—not his father, not the medical community, not the state—was willing to protect,<i> My Lobotomy</i> exposes a shameful chapter in the history of the treatment of mental illness. Yet, ultimately, this is a powerful and moving chronicle of the life of one man. Without reticence, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption. </p><h3>The New York Times - William Grimes</h3><p>Mr. Dully eventually finds a woman who loves him, a love he returns to her, her son and the son they have together. Therein lies the answer to the biggest question of Mr. Dully's life. The lobotomy, although terrible, was not the greatest injury done to him. His greatest misfortune, as his own testimony makes clear, was being raised by parents who could not give him love. The lobotomy, he writes, made him feel like a Frankenstein monster. But that's not quite right. By the age of 12 he already felt that way. It's this that makes <i>My Lobotomy</i> one of the saddest stories you'll ever read.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>At age 12, in 1960, Dully received a transorbital or "ice pick" lobotomy from Dr. Walter Freeman, who invented the procedure, making Dully an unfortunate statistic in medical history-the youngest of the more than 10,000 patients who Freeman lobotomized to cure their supposed mental illness. In this brutally honest memoir, Dully, writing with Fleming (<i>The Ivory Coast</i>), describes how he set out 40 years later to find out why he was lobotomized, since he did not exhibit any signs of mental instability at the time, and why, postoperation, he was bounced between various institutions and then slowly fell into a life of drug and alcohol abuse. His journey-first described in a National Public Radio feature in 2005-finds Dully discovering how deeply he was the victim of an unstable stepmother who systematically abused him and who then convinced his distant father that a lobotomy was the answer to Dully's acting out against her psychic torture. He also investigates the strange career of Freeman-who wasn't a licensed psychiatrist-including early acclaim by the <i>New York Times</i>and cross-country trips hawking the operation from his "Lobotomobile." But what is truly stunning is Dully's description of how he gained strength and a sense of self-worth by understanding how both Freeman and his stepmother were victims of their own family tragedies, and how he managed to somehow forgive them for the wreckage they caused in his life. <i>(Sept.)</i></p>Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information <h3>Kirkus Reviews</h3><p>Gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of 12. Assisted by journalist/novelist Fleming (After Havana, 2003, etc.), Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. "In 1960," he writes, "I was given a transorbital, or ‘ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some ‘tests.' It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars." Fellow doctors called Freeman's technique barbaric: an ice pick-like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15% of the operations Freeman performed) killed them outright. Dully's ten-minute "test" did neither, but in some ways it had a far crueler result, since it didn't end the unruly behavior that had set his stepmother against him to begin with. "I spent the next forty years in and out of insane asylums, jails, and halfway houses," he tells us. "I was homeless, alcoholic, and drug-addicted. I was lost." From all accounts, there was no excuse for the lobotomy. Dully had never been "crazy," and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. His stepmother responded with unrelenting abuse and neglect, his father allowed her to demonize his son and never admitted his complicity in the lobotomy; Freeman capitalized ontheir monumental dysfunction. It's a tale of epic horror, and while Dully's courage in telling it inspires awe, readers are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts. A profoundly disturbing survivor's tale. Agent: Gary Morris/David Black Literary Agency </p>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-12898149572137876082007-05-08T17:23:00.001-07:002007-05-08T17:23:39.848-07:00<span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span></span> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:6;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; color: black;">ROBIN WILLIAMS FOR PRESIDENT</span></span><b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA1.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=2&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="659" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:7;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 36pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br />The Plan!</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><img id="MA2.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=3&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="483" width="401" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says "I love </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">New York</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> " in Arabic.</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA3.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=4&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="643" /></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">You gotta love Robin Williams!<br />Even if he's nuts! 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So, here's one plan." </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><img id="MA4.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=5&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="663" /></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br />1) "The </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">US</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good ole boys", we will never "interfere" again. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><img id="MA5.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=6&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="651" /></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br />2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Germany</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> , </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">South Korea</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> , the </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Middle East</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">, and the </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Philippines</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA6.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=7&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="663" /></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">! </span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">3) All illegal aliens have 30 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 30 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">France</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> will welcome them. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA7.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=8&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="655" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available<br />to anyone. We don't need any more </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA8.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=9&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="655" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA9.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=10&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="657" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />6) The </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">US</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> will make a strong effort<br />to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA10.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=11&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="667" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />7) Offer </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Saudi Arabia</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their productio! n. ;(About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.) </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA11.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=12&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="667" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">in the world, we will not "interfere." They can </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA12.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=13&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="651" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens. </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA13.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=14&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="651" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan? </span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:black;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><img id="MA14.1177626071" src="http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f1690%5fALqzo0IAANatRj0p%2fAqKQxguNMw&pid=15&fid=Inbox&inline=1" height="15" width="643" /></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"><br /><br />"The Statue of </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Liberty</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> is no longer<br />saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' " </span></span></b></div></div></div>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-89001478530372788852007-04-11T22:22:00.000-07:002007-04-11T22:24:05.061-07:00<form action="'http://www.kwiz.biz/simplesurveys/do-survey.php'" method="'post'" target="'_new'"><table border="1" bordercolor="#efefef" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><b><i>Tell Me About YourSelf Quiz!*</i></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question1'" value="'Tell+Me+About+YourSelf+Quiz%21%2A'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type1'" value="'2'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><b><i>Have You?</i></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question2'" value="'Have+You%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type2'" value="'2'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Kissed a member of the same sex?</td><td align="left"><b>No</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question3'" 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value="'Makes+you+laugh+the+most%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type40'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Makes you smile?</td><td align="left"><b>Barbara</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question41'" value="'Makes+you+smile%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type41'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Can make you feel better know matter what?</td><td align="left"><b>Linda</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question42'" value="'Can+make+you+feel+better+know+matter+what%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type42'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Who has it easier girls or guys?</td><td align="left"><b>guys of course</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question43'" value="'Who+has+it+easier+girls+or+guys%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type43'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><b><i>Have You Ever?</i></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question44'" value="'Have+You+Ever%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type44'" value="'2&..39;"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Sang in the shower?</td><td align="left"><b>all the time</b><input type="'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Saved an AIM conversation?</td><td align="left"><b>many</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question46'" value="'Saved+an+AIM+conversation%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type46'" value="'1&..39;"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Saved an E-mail?</td><td align="left"><b>duh</b><input type="'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Had a triple kiss?</td><td align="left"><b>yep</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question48'" value="'Had+a+triple+kiss%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type48'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Gone skyp-diving?</td><td align="left"><b>nope</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question49'" value="'Gone+skyp-diving%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type49'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Got in serious trouble?</td><td align="left"><b>yep</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question50'" value="'Got+in+serious+trouble%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type50'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Went scuba diving?</td><td align="left"><b>yep</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question51'" value="'Went+scuba+diving%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type51'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Cuddled with someone?</td><td align="left"><b>always</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question52'" value="'Cuddled+with+someone%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type52'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Go .. for more then 8 hours at a time?</td><td align="left"><b>nix</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question53'" value="'Go+..+for+more+then+8+hours+at+a+time%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type53'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Fallen for your best friend?</td><td align="left"><b>yep</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question54'" value="'Fallen+for+your+best+friend%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type54'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Kissed two people in the same day?</td><td align="left"><b>see triple kiss silly</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question55'" value="'Kissed+two+people+in+the+same+day%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type55'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Had sex with two different people in the same day?</td><td align="left"><b>Male</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question56'" value="'Had+sex+with+two+different+people+in+the+same+day%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type56'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Been rejected?</td><td align="left"><b>of course</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question57'" value="'Been+rejected%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type57'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Been in love?</td><td align="left"><b>probably</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question58'" value="'Been+in+love%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type58'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Been kissed?</td><td align="left"><b>whats with the kissing?</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question59'" value="'Been+kissed%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type59'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Done something you regret?</td><td align="left"><b>many times</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question60'" value="'Done+something+you+regret%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type60'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><b><i>Last Person?</i></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question61'" value="'Last+Person%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type61'" value="'2'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">You touched?</td><td align="left"><b></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question62'" value="'You+touched%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type62'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">You talked to?</td><td align="left"><b>Barbara</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question63'" value="'You+talked+to%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type63'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">You hugged?</td><td align="left"><b>Barbara</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question64'" value="'You+hugged%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type64'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">You IMed?</td><td align="left"><b></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question65'" value="'You+IMed%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type65'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">You yelled at?</td><td align="left"><b>Barbara</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question66'" value="'You+yelled+at%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type66'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Who broke your heart?</td><td align="left"><b>Cathie</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question68'" value="'Who+broke+your+heart%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type68'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Who told you they loved you?</td><td align="left"><b>Barbara</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question69'" value="'Who+told+you+they+loved+you%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type69'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><b><i>Do You?</i></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question70'" value="'Do+You%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type70'" value="'2'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Color your hair?</td><td align="left"><b>nope</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question71'" value="'Color+your+hair%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type71'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Have tattoos?</td><td align="left"><b>yep</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question72'" value="'Have+tattoos%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type72'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Have piercings?</td><td align="left"><b>nope</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question73'" value="'Have+piercings%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type73'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Have a boyfriend/girlfriend?</td><td align="left"><b>and a wife :)</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question74'" value="'Have+a+boyfriend%2Fgirlfriend%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type74'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Own a thong?</td><td align="left"><b>my thong thing</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question75'" value="'Own+a+thong%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type75'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Want to get married?</td><td align="left"><b>never again</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question76'" value="'Want+to+get+married%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type76'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Want to have kids?</td><td align="left"><b>no more</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question77'" value="'Want+to+have+kids%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type77'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><b><i>Complete!*</i></b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question78'" value="'Complete%21%2A'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type78'" value="'2'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Name?</td><td align="left"><b>Howard Dully</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question79'" value="'Name%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type79'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Age?</td><td align="left"><b>58</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question80'" value="'Age%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type80'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Gender?</td><td align="left"><b>Male</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question81'" value="'Gender%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type81'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Hair?</td><td align="left"><b>brn/gry</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question82'" value="'Hair%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type82'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Eyes?</td><td align="left"><b>blue</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question83'" value="'Eyes%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type83'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Sport?</td><td align="left"><b>football</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question84'" value="'Sport%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type84'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Book?</td><td align="left"><b>My Lobotomy</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question85'" value="'Book%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type85'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Music?</td><td align="left"><b>Oldies</b><input type="'hidden'" name="'question86'" value="'Music%3F'"><input type="'hidden'" name="'type86'" value="'1'"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="'submit'" value="'Take"><br /><a href="'http://www.kwiz.biz/simplesurveys/create-survey.php'">CREATE YOUR OWN!</a> - or - <a href="'http://www.kwiz.biz/simplesurveys/paid-surveys.php'">GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!</a></td></tr></form></table>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-14370042150265700932007-04-11T10:13:00.001-07:002007-04-11T10:13:50.292-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="header"><b>Artist: Carman </b></span><br /><span class="header"><b> Song: The Courtroom </b></span><br /><span class="header"><b></b></span><br />If tonight you stood in heaven's court;<br />to seek eternal favour...<br />Would you face Jesus Christ as Judge;<br />or face Him as your Saviour?<br />There are many who don't quite know for sure;<br />what that verdict would be...Ever...<br /><br />So lets imagine for a moment<br />you are standing dead center...<br />In the Courtroom of Forever...<br /><br />(instrumental)<br /><br />Sitting before you is a structure;<br />massive and intense.<br />It's here where your fate will be determined;<br />before this Judge's bench...<br />Then a voice booms:<br />"This Court's now in session."<br />And your adrenaline starts to rush.<br />Peering down with eyes;<br />that see through your soul..<br />Is God the Father, your Judge.<br /><br />Then off to your left;<br />across the room...<br />Is the virtual sillouette of sin.<br />Stepping out of the shadows of condemnation;<br />your worst nightmare walks in.<br />On his face is the smirk of evil incarnate;<br />his mind fixed on your destruction in Hell.<br />You've just been introduced to you prosecuting attorney;<br />none other than Satan himself.<br /><br />The Bible says he's the accuser of the brethren;<br />so guess what he's gonna do.<br />He's gonna accuse you of your sins;<br />and he knows them all...Both the old ones and the new.<br />He's prepared his case for years;<br />now the golden moment is his.<br />So in arrogance he presents his case to the Judge;<br />and it comes out sounding something like this...<br /><br />"God, you see this worthless piece of trash over here!<br />This one is a sinner to the core! This one's commited adultery,<br />cursed his neighbors, stolen money, been into drugs, alchohol<br />and even more! This hopeless wretch has even slammed his friends!<br />And by the guilty face, this courtroom can tell. That through immoral<br />incertainty beyond any reasonable doubt, this one deserves eternal<br />judgement in Hell!"<br /><br />The words of accusation still echoed;<br />your every sin thrown up in your face...<br />Then God opens the book;<br />with every deed that you courted...<br />And reviews your records of disgrace.<br />God says "The book says you did this, this, and this and everything<br />you were accused of today. Now before I sentence you to Hell forever;<br />are there any last words you have to say?"<br /><br />...Now if it's true you were standing there;<br />in the Courtroom of Eternity.<br />With God to your front, and Satan-the prosecuter-to your left.<br />There's one remaining eternal truth;<br />one that's crucial to remember...<br />One you should never, ever, ever forget...<br /><br />Then, on the other side of the Courtroom...<br />(doom music)<br />I said, on the other side of the Courtroom...<br />(doom music)<br />You ain't hearing me tonight;<br />I said, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COURTROOM!<br />(doom music)<br /><br />...Is the one and only Son of God;<br />revealed in time and space.<br />And he's your defense attorney;<br />who has never lost a case!<br />It's not Buddha, Muhammad, or Christana(wrong);<br />or any others who succumb to death!<br />Ladies and gentlemen;<br />on the other side of The Courtroom,<br />is Jesus Christ of Nazereth!<br /><br />Then Jesus jumps up, says:<br />"Now what a minute God! I got something to say! May I remind you<br />that on a cross 2000 years ago, I washed his sins away! I was<br />crucified, I died, they put me in a tomb--but long about the midnight<br />hour--the power of God hit me and I walked out of that grave, alive<br />and well with ressurection power!"<br /><br />Then the devil says:<br />"It's in the book! It's written in the book! Check the book!"<br /><br />God said:<br />"Okay."<br />Then He takes the book out, lays it open and says:<br />"Now we'll see what this book has to say."<br /><br />He turns to the first page...<br />The second page...<br />The third...<br />By the fourth, the devil seemed shook...<br /><br />God closes it, says:<br />"The blood of Jesus must of worked...Because there's absolutely<br />nothing in this book."<br /><br />The devil says:<br />"Now what a minute, check that book again! All his sins are written<br />down, they're all right there!<br /><br />God says:<br />"Devil, maybe you're mistaken all together. Maybe it's this other book<br />down here..."<br /><br />Devil cries:<br />"NO!! Not that book! Not that one!"<br /><br />God said:<br />"Devil, why you so uptight?"<br /><br />God sets the book down...<br />The dust flies...<br />And on the cover it says: The Lamb's Book of Life!<br /><br />(singing)<br /><br />Is your name in that book?<br />Is your name in that book?<br />Is your name in that book for sure?<br /><br />If you've been forgiven...<br />And your name is written...<br />Then raise your hands-praise the Lord.<br /><br />Yes, my name's in that book...<br />My name is in that book...<br />My name is in that book tonight...<br /><br />I've been forgiven...<br />And I know my name is written...<br />In the Lamb's Book of Life...<br /><br />(three blows of the mallet)<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This court is ajourned...</div>Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26758304.post-83194770001005689942007-03-22T16:32:00.000-07:002007-03-22T16:36:33.833-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/RgMS3weu1EI/AAAAAAAAAAM/xcpWZls9M-Y/s1600-h/My+Lobotomy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_aF2tz7FxcmY/RgMS3weu1EI/AAAAAAAAAAM/xcpWZls9M-Y/s400/My+Lobotomy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044896756700992578" border="0" /></a><br /><div class="buying"><b class="sans">My Lobotomy (Hardcover) </b><br />by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/103-9414657-4891056?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Howard%20Dully">Howard Dully</a> (Author), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/103-9414657-4891056?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Charles%20Fleming">Charles Fleming</a> (Author) </div> <hr noshade="noshade" size="1"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"> <div class="buying" id="priceBlock"> <table class="product"> <tbody><tr> <td class="productLabel">List Price:</td> <td class="listprice">$24.95 </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="productLabel">Price:</td> <td><b class="price">$16.47</b> & eligible for <b>FREE Super Saver Shipping</b> on orders over $25. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/super-saver-shipping-pop-up.html/ref=mk_gship_dp/103-9414657-4891056" target="SuperSaverShipping" onclick="return amz_js_PopWin('/exec/obidos/subst/misc/super-saver-shipping-pop-up.html/ref=mk_gship_dp/103-9414657-4891056','SuperSaverShipping','width=550,height=550,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,status=0');">Details</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="productLabel">You Save:</td> <td class="price">$8.48 (34%) </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div><br /> <div class="buying"> <b>Pre-Order Price Guarantee!</b> Order now and if the Amazon.com price decreases between your order time and release date, you'll receive the lowest price. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/468502/pop-up/103-9414657-4891056" target="PreorderPriceProtection" onclick="return amz_js_PopWin('/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/468502/pop-up/103-9414657-4891056','PreorderPriceProtection','width=550,height=550,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,toolbar=0,status=0');">See Details</a> </div> </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"> <br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"> <br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="100%"> <div class="buying"> <b>Availability:</b> This title will be released on September 4, 2007. 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I am sure something I have said has had to have rubbed someone the wrong way or at least have partial agreement. It makes you wonder if anyone reads blogs or just looks for pictures.</span><br /><br /><br />Legalize Prostitution<br /><br />In many communities throughout the U.S., the police focus attention on arresting persons involved in prostitution. A careful examination of this practice shows that it reduces the quality of life in society.<br /><br />By forcing prostitution out of places where it would more naturally be found, such as in brothels or near motels, the police drive that activity into the streets of neighborhoods where it otherwise would not exist. As a result, residents of the neighborhoods are exposed to the activity against their will.<br /><br />Also because of prostitution being forced into the streets, the dangers to many prostitutes greatly increase. Prostitutes whose jobs involve working at night and getting into cars with complete strangers can be, and often have been, easy pickings for serial killers and other sociopaths. James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, says prostitutes are the most frequent targets for serial killers.<br /><br />A sensible solution to these problems would be to follow the example of some European cities, where prostitution is allowed in certain designated areas. People who are interested in the activity go to places where it's permitted, and they leave alone the neighborhoods that don't wish to be associated with it. And the prostitutes can work in environments where they are much safer.<br /><br />Another problem with prostitution arrests is that they cause long-term increases in crime and drug abuse in society. Margo St. James, a former social worker and a leading advocate of legalizing prostitution, writes: "When a woman is charged for a sex crime, it's a stigma that lasts her lifetime, and it makes her unemployable."<br /><br />St. James identifies this stigma as a major reason why a large percentage of women who are in jail were first arrested for prostitution. The arrest record forecloses normal employment possibilities, keeps the women working as prostitutes longer than they otherwise would, and sets them up for a lifetime of involvement with drugs and serious crime.<br /><br />Keeping prostitution illegal also contributes to crime because many criminals view prostitutes and their customers as attractive targets for robbery, fraud, rape, or other criminal acts. The criminals realize that such people are unlikely to report the crimes to police, because the victims would have to admit they were involved in the illegal activity of prostitution when the attacks took place. <br /><br />If prostitution were legal, these victims would be less reluctant to report to police any criminal acts that occurred while they were involved in it. This would significantly improve the probability of catching the criminals and preventing them from victimizing others. In many cases, it could deter them from committing the crimes in the first place.<br /><br />That view is consistent with the experience of the European countries where prostitution is legal. They have far lower crime rates than the U.S. And a similar situation applies in the Nevada counties where prostitution is legal. According to Barb Brents and Kate Hausbeck, two professors of sociology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who have extensively studied the Nevada brothel industry, those counties are quite peaceable and have very low crime rates.<br /><br />No wonder that in November 2004 in Churchill County, Nevada, a ballot proposal to outlaw prostitution was rejected by a 2-to-1 margin. Although the county is mostly Republican and supported George W. Bush for president, the same voters saw no reason to stop brothels from operating there. <br /><br />Additionally, laws against prostitution violate Americans' fundamental rights of individual liberty and personal privacy. Thomas Jefferson and other founders of the U.S. envisioned a society where people can live without interference from government, provided they don't harm others.<br /><br />As Jefferson said in his First Inaugural Address: "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement." Or as Arthur Hoppe wrote about consensual acts in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1992: "The function of government is to protect me from others. It's up to me, thank you, to protect me from me."<br /><br />Similar to issues such as birth control, this issue involves people's fundamental rights to control their own bodies and decide the best way to conduct their lives. Alan Soble noted, "The freedom to choose one's reasons for engaging in sex is an important part of sexual freedom."<br /><br />In a free society, it makes no sense for the government to be telling persons - particularly the poor - they cannot charge a fee for harmless services they otherwise are at liberty to give away. To paraphrase George Carlin: Selling is legal, and sex is legal, so why isn't selling sex legal? <br /><br />In fact, many people work in the sex industry because they see it as their only means of alleviating serious financial problems. Other sex workers aren't poor but simply enjoy that type of work and receive both income and personal satisfaction from it.<br /><br />As one sex worker wrote in an article for a national newspaper: "All in all prostitution has been good to me and I have been good to it. . . . I don't really have to work anymore, but I love the business, so I still see my regular clients."<br /><br />Likewise for the customers, there's no reason their freedom should not include the right to purchase the companionship and affection they may want but, for whatever reason, don't find in other aspects of their lives. <br /><br />For example, one disabled man told researchers he was lonely and visited prostitutes because "I'm ugly, no women will go out with me. . . . It's because of my disability. So prostitutes are a sexual outlet for me." Another man reported that he did the same for a number of years due to being "anorexic and very reclusive. There was no chance of forming a relationship." A physically unattractive man added, "I pay for sex because that is the only way I can get sex."<br /><br />Another person said his experiences with prostitutes and other sex workers helped him overcome an extreme aversion to physical intimacy, which had resulted from years of physical and emotional abuse while growing up. He explained: "I very likely would have died a virgin if I hadn't somehow gotten comfortable with physical intimacy, and sex workers enabled me to do that. At least for me, it's been a healing experience."<br /><br />Dr. John Money, a leading sexologist and a professor at Johns Hopkins University, similarly notes that sex workers, with proper training, can assist clients in overcoming "erotic phobia" and various other sexual dysfunctions. He says that for the clients, "the relationship with a paid professional may be the equivalent of therapy."<br /><br />Can anyone, other than the ignorant or cruel, argue that sex workers should not be permitted to help such persons? <br /><br />Further, numerous legal commentators point out that using law enforcement resources against prostitution reduces substantially the resources available to fight serious crimes committed against persons or property. This nation desperately needs more efforts applied to solving those crimes, because arrests are being made in connection with only about 20% of them.<br /><br />And according to the Multinational Monitor, massive amounts of white-collar crime are not being prosecuted. The magazine also says the damage inflicted on society by corporate crime and violence far exceeds the harm caused by all the street crime combined. The victims of the Enron and WorldCom scandals - many of whom lost their life savings - would probably support that claim.<br /><br />As Ralph Nader stated in 2000: "Law enforcement, which is supposed to protect the incomes of consumers from corporate crime, fraud and abuse is a farce, devoid of resources and the will to apply necessary law and order. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being looted from consumers yearly."<br /><br />Some researchers say a reason for the inordinate amount of police attention to prostitution is that certain officers prefer duties enabling them to be with attractive women in hotel rooms or massage parlors. The duties are more pleasant, far less dangerous, and less complex than assignments requiring them to be among violent criminals who may be carrying weapons.<br /><br />For instance, in 1999 at least one of the vice-squad officers in Columbus, Ohio, was regularly having sexual intercourse with prostitutes before arresting them. After receiving negative publicity about that practice, the police division issued new guidelines limiting officers to getting completely naked with prostitutes; touching their thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic region, breast, or other regions to the extent needed "to obtain the necessary elements of the offense"; being masturbated briefly; and "momentarily" having sexual intercourse if it's "in spite of all reasonable efforts of the officer to stop." (In practice, though, the officers apparently find it necessary to use those tactics only in arresting female - not male - prostitutes.)<br /><br />Despite the revised guidelines, in 2003 the Columbus Dispatch quoted one court clerk as describing the officers' arrest reports as sometimes being so steamy she "should have a cigarette after reading it." The head of the vice squad acknowledged to the newspaper that "it appears officers are engaging in sexual contact." <br /><br />His officers give new meaning to being "in hot pursuit." Unfortunately for the public, this nonsense goes on at the same time that Columbus has over 400 unsolved murders since 1990, including several prostitutes brutally murdered by a possible serial killer. When a frightened group of senior citizens and disabled persons asked in 2004 for more protection from violent crime, the Columbus police chief turned them down, saying, "Seventy-eight times a day we are unable to fill a cruiser because of lack of personnel." <br /><br />As for white-collar crime, the police undoubtedly know that their jobs and careers are safer by making prostitution arrests than by investigating criminals who cause serious harm but either wield political power or have strong connections to those who do. And when the corruption involves others in the police force, the notorious "Blue Wall of Silence" leads all too many officers to ignore and protect the wrongdoing of badge-wearing criminals, too. <br /><br />Our society would be better served if the police directed their efforts away from the activities of consenting adults and toward preventing and solving real crimes involving clear victims and injustices.Howard Dullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07443029157838710605noreply@blogger.com2