Hi,
I am not in any way an expert on brain surgery, but I was really upset when I read the below passage.
"In 1960 Howard Dully was brought in for the procedure because his
stepmother described him as “unbelievably defiant,” saying among other
things: He objects to going to bed and does a good deal of daydreaming.
After Howard’s stepmother visited with Dr. Freeman, he suggested that
the family should consider the possibility of changing Howard’s
personality by means of transorbital lobotomy.” Howard’s stepmother
convinced her husband (Howard’s Father) that is was the best thing for
his son and then gave the doctors his approval. Dully took decades to
recover from the surgery; he was institutionalized, incarcerated, and
was eventually homeless and an alcoholic. Eventually Dully sobered up
and received a college degree and became a California state certified
instructor for a school bus company in San Jose, California.
Interesting Fact: When Dully was in his 50s he
embarked on a two year journey to uncover what happened to him as a
child. He spoke with his family and his relatives and other lobotomy
patients of Dr. Freeman and gained access to Freeman’s archives. Dully
was one of the youngest patients to receive an “ice pick” lobotomy and
the first patient ever to obtain a picture of his own lobotomy."
Reference here.