Hidden valley road : inside the mind of an American family
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Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2021].
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Adult Book
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0735274479, 9780735274471 (pbk.) :
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377 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
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Non-Fiction (Adult) - Non-Fiction Shelves
616.89800922 K65 2021
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Published
Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2021].
Language
English
ISBN
0735274479, 9780735274471 (pbk.) :

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-356) and index.
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"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after the other, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institutes of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother, to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amidst profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself"--Publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kolker, R. (2021). Hidden valley road: inside the mind of an American family . Vintage Canada.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kolker, Robert. 2021. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family. Vintage Canada.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kolker, Robert. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Vintage Canada, 2021.

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Kolker, Robert. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Vintage Canada, 2021.

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