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Welcome to the StoryCorps podcast from NPR.

I'm Michael Garofalo.

Before he founded StoryCorps, Dave Isay had a long career making radio documentaries.

From time to time on this podcast, we go back and listen to some of his work.

In this episode, we're going to hear one

that Dave made with producer Pia Cocher, called My Lobotomy. It's from 2005, but we're revisiting

it now in honor of the person central to this story, whose journey we're about to hear, a man named

Howard Dully. He died last month. The starting point for this story is January 17,

1946. That day, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman performed the first ever transorbital

or ice-pick lobotomy in his Washington, D.C. office. He believed that mental illness was related to overactive emotions

and that by cutting the brain, he was cutting away those problematic feelings. Freeman was something of a

showman, and he traveled the country performing lobotomies and crusading for the procedure. Before he

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