On Lobotomies

I was pleased to read a piece in the Times about My Lobotomy: A Memoir. The book came out of a radio documentary presented on NPR in November 2005. I had an opportunity to hear it when I worked at StoryCorps a project that springs from SoundPortrait Productions (which also produced the My Lobotomy radio documentary). The documentary is about Howard Dully, a man who had an "ice-pick" lobotomy when he was 12 years old. Mr. Dully has no recollection of the procedure and basically sets out to find out all that he can about what happened to him and why.

I don't know if I'll actually read the book - the radio piece is pretty grueling emotionally and I'm not sure if I'm all for re-hashing. In any event, I urge you to listen to radio piece if you can. Just click here.