Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, (Paperback)

from LynnB

This is the true story of a family of twelve children: 10 boys followed by 2 girls, born between 1945 and 1965. Six of the ten boys are diagnosed with schizophrenia. This book tells the story of various family members and their interactions, which include violence and abuse as well as love and su...

from bogopea

Assuming you know the premise of this brilliant work of non-fiction, let me just say it is riveting, chilling, absorbing, sad and, for me, not uplifting. It is a major work on the subject of mental health in the US, specifically, schizophrenia. One astonishing thing is that even though there are ...

from Narshkite

A brilliant engrossing look at schizophrenia's genesis, diagnosis, impact and treatment both from the perspective of a family almost unbelievably cursed and the doctors who are trying to find the causes of schizophrenia and thereby find ways to manage or even better to prevent or cure the disease...

from froxgirl

This almost unbelievable saga of a family with twelve children, six of whom are afflicted with schizophrenia, is almost as important a clinical study as The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The main question for me is: why on earth would you choose to have so many children? Even under the best o...

from shazjhb

Amazing book. As a psychiatric nurse much of what was described was part of my experience taking care of patients. I always believed schizophrenia was more of a syndrome and on a continuum. Medications are terrible. If I developed the slightest signs of schizophrenia I would not take any of the d...