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Howard dully s journey over the past two years, howard dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12yearold boy. Sep 04, 2008 howard, told he was going into the hospital for tests, was instead given electroshock treatments and a transorbital lobotomy. I suggested they not tell howard anything about it. My thanks to howard dully to have the courage to expose the good, the bad and the ugly of. In 1960 howards father and stepmother delivered him into the hands of the man who had invented the ice pick lobotomy.
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