Joey Mellen
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Joseph "Joey" Mellen is the British-born author of Bore Hole, a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by Bart Huges
, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding
. Mellen then filmed Amanda's own self-trepanation for a documentary entitled "Heartbeat in the Brain".
Mellen and Feilding lived together from late 1960s to the early 1990. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding Mellen (born 1985).
Bart Huges
Hugo Bart Huges was a Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation. He attended, but did not complete, medical school at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1964 he published "The Mechanism of Brainbloodvolume " a scroll in which he proposed that trepanation could be used to...
, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding
Amanda Feilding
Amanda Charteris, Countess of Wemyss and March, , is a British artist, scientist and drug policy reformer. She is scientific director and founder of the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust...
. Mellen then filmed Amanda's own self-trepanation for a documentary entitled "Heartbeat in the Brain".
Mellen and Feilding lived together from late 1960s to the early 1990. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding Mellen (born 1985).