Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Description
An outwardly exemplary American family becomes the center of a profound medical and social mystery when six of its sons develop schizophrenia over the course of a generation. Drawing on the Galvin family’s deeply complicated history, the book explores the private costs of mental illness, family loyalty, trauma, and the limits of the American ideal. Their experience also illuminates the evolving science of schizophrenia—from controversial theories and institutional practices to groundbreaking genetic research—while tracing the researchers and debates shaped by their case. Compassionate and meticulously reported, this is both an intimate family story and a sweeping account of how modern psychiatry has sought to understand one of its most challenging disorders.
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paperback
Doubleday Books
Published Jan 1, 2020
377 pages
ISBN: 9780385543767
paperback
Anchor
Published Mar 2, 2021
400 pages
ISBN: 9780525562641
paperback
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2020
400 pages
ISBN: 9780385543774
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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