Book Review Hidden Valley Road
Hidden valley road tells the terrifying story of a family swallowed whole by schizophrenia a disease that no one understood not doctors or researchers and certainly not the galvins.
Book review hidden valley road. Review review a professional. I was surprised to receive this one though because i completely forgot putting it on my list. Posted on april 15 2020 by lisa kothari.
One family s history reveals the mystery of schizophrenia. In a riveting and disquieting narrative kolker lost girls. Hidden valley road inside the mind of an american family by robert kolker is a newly published book that looks at one family the galvins.
Hidden valley road delves into the family s story and how the matriarch tries to keep it all together. The galvin daughters the two youngest provide the emotional heart of the book. Throughout as the family becomes the subject of research theories are presented as to the cause of schizophrenia and the best treatment from debilitating drugs to shock therapy.
Hidden valley road is a must read for anyone who seeks to understand how far we ve come in treating mental illness and how far we still have to go. I received hidden valley road for mother s day this year. So relates robert kolker journalist and author of hidden valley road.
Hidden valley road book review may 21 2020 by monica andrews. Robert kolker s new book hidden valley road tells the terrifying story of the galvins a large family beset by schizophrenia six of its 12 children were afflicted with the disease. They grew up watching their brothers suffer while also being terrified of and terrorized by them.
The book draws from hundreds of hours of interviews kolker conducted with the galvins.