Joseph Mellen (born September 1939) is the British-born author of ''Bore Hole'', a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by

Bart Huges Hugo Bart Huges (also Hughes; 23 April 1934 – 30 August 2004) was a Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation. He attended medical school at the University of Amsterdam, but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of LSD research and naming ...

, and his eventual success with the help of his partner

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. Mellen and Feilding lived together from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding-Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding-Mellen (born 1985). Rock Feilding-Mellen was a local councillor and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration with the

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. Following the

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fire and its aftermath, he resigned. In 1994 Mellen met Jenny Gathorne-Hardy, who was trepanned in 1995. Their son Rudy Blu was born in 1996 and they were married later that year; their daughter Lily was born in 2012.

References

Other sources

* Michell John (1984), ''Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions'',

External links

"The People With Holes In Their Heads"
- from ''Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions'' by

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Joe Mellen
- website with e-books
interview with Joe Mellen
at vice.com Living people 1939 births {{UK-writer-stub