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Thanks Doreen, you'll love it I'm sure. And hey, ...

2008-10-30T21:50:00.000-04:00

Thanks Doreen, you'll love it I'm sure. And hey, how about an interview?

Wonderful interview, Polly. I don't know how I mis...

2008-10-30T21:41:00.000-04:00

Wonderful interview, Polly. I don't know how I missed this book, but I won't for long.

I guess I should have said "some" successful profe...

2008-10-23T08:22:00.000-04:00

I guess I should have said "some" successful professional instead of "many." Maybe the more successful, the greater the risk of this kind of thing happening. For some time Dr. freeman was a real star in the field of medicine. He even won a Nobel Peace Prize, so it's not hard to see the basis of his grandiosity.

He certainly had his own agenda. It looks to me l...

2008-10-22T23:11:00.000-04:00

He certainly had his own agenda. It looks to me like he started out with all sincerity, but like many successful professionals his ego took over and his grandiosity took precedence over the patients. Sad, because it resulted in the devastation and loss of many lives.

Wow. That Dr. Freeman sounds like one evil bastar...

2008-10-22T22:57:00.000-04:00

Wow. That Dr. Freeman sounds like one evil bastard.

Interesting interview. Thank you! I blogged about ...

2008-10-20T13:42:00.000-04:00

Interesting interview. Thank you! I blogged about lobotomy several months ago. Here's the link:

http://neuropathologyblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/ice-pick-lobotomy.html

I hadn't thought that it would be that interesting...

2008-10-20T04:12:00.000-04:00

I hadn't thought that it would be that interesting reading about the impact on the reader but now that you've both pointed it out and I think about it, memoirists being impacted by other memoirists in particular is pretty interesting stuff. If I do other interviews I'll focus on this again. Thanks!

I think Howard is pretty unusual in the limited amount of long-term damage that was done. If you look at the video link on this second interview you can see some very severely permanently damaged people. From what I've read, transorbital lobotomy wasn't a very exact science. They just inserted the ice picks into the patients' eye sockets and twisted away to their heart's content, so sometimes minimal damage was done and sometimes, hey, shit happens. Dr. Freeman seemed to be on an almost religious type of quest to perform lobotomies, as Howard aludes to. He knew Howard didn't really need one but he wanted more patients to perform and perfect them on so he found any excuse. This included doing it to people who were exceptionally quirky or nonconformists and, because it was the fifties and early sixties, thousands of women who just wouldn't shut up and behave. (Part of the reason the "psychosurgical" procedure went out of vogue was the introduction of medications like Valium. That'll shut those damn troublemaking women up!) I guess Howard is lucky because the only long-term effect seems to be recurring eye infections, but it never should've happened in the first place. It's miraculous, IMO, that he's the person he is today.

Polly, soooo cool. What a guy. I agree with Leah...

2008-10-19T23:06:00.000-04:00

Polly, soooo cool. What a guy. I agree with Leah, that it was interesting to hear how his story resonated with you. I vote for more memoirist intervies. I didn't really know much about the genre until I met you, and now I think it's very absorbing.

I can't help being struck by how normal Mr. Dully sounds. I can't detect any problems with his thoughts, articulation, etc. I thought lobotomies left a lot more damage. Maybe because he was so young when he had it? I don't know. I'm going to go give one to Kevin as an experiment...

Fascinating bit, Polly. It's especially interestin...

2008-10-19T18:23:00.000-04:00

Fascinating bit, Polly. It's especially interesting to read the effect his book had on you.
I'm personally all for you interviewing other memoirists. It helps the other memoir writers out there discover for themselves the effect their words have on others.
Thanks for this.