Hidden Valley Road

书名：Hidden Valley RoadInsidetheMindofanAmericanFamily
作者：RobertKolker
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ISBN：9780385543767
出版社：Doubleday
出版时间：2020-4-7
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：400
豆瓣评分： 9.0

书籍简介：

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. 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 another, 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 Institute 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 amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

作者简介：

Robert Kolker is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls, named one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books and one of Publisher's Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013. As a journalist, his work has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Oprah, and Men's Journal. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim 2011 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

书友短评：

@ Lunar Lunatic 一个庞大家庭的隐痛。离开的和留下的都感到被伤害。坚守的和逃离的都觉得委屈。父母和孩子都有巨大的创伤。nature和nurture各自发挥作用。多么矛盾复杂让人爱恨交加的家人啊。但所幸Lindsay愿意勇敢面对，去探索，去unveil，去试图理解。但就算想要逃离、想要忘记亦无可厚非。谁不是带着一身创伤继续向前走呢。读到最后是伤感的。对于精神病患者的药物治疗，我的理解就是为了避免他们作乱，就用药物慢慢“毒死”他们，直观来说，就是这样。希望医学早日攻克这个难题。 @ 和光同橙 这本看了很久。一部关于家族精神病（Galvin Family)以及精神病研究史的书，作者参考文献多达两百页。剧情和研究进程交替章节进行，Galvin家族12个孩子中有一半逐渐患上精神病，而得精神病和治疗精神病同样危险（甚至更痛苦：水疗 电击 额叶切除术 药物控制 后续的一些副作用）。psychiatrists也一直在发病原因中的nature or nurture中纠结，直到有人发现病人和正常人不同之处在于大脑中缺少α7接受分子。故事线Galvin一家作为研究样本贡献巨大，可以说是他们的苦难推动了精神病研究史的发展。 @ JuneCybil 理论和家族故事交叉叙述，这是一个多么令人心碎的家庭，好多人既是受害者，又是施害者。很容易被里面的女性角色打动，每个人的应对方式不同，但都是勇敢、坚强的化身，无一例外。 @ Al. 人的生命力好强，就算一手烂牌也要硬着头皮打下去，还有那多人投入一辈子的事业来帮他们解决/预防问题。

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