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Farley, Audrey Clare.
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Quadruplets -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects.
Schizophrenia -- Case studies.
Sisters -- Biography.
Mental health -- United States.
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Farley, Audrey Clare.
Quadruplets -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects.
Schizophrenia -- Case studies.
Sisters -- Biography.
Mental health -- United States.
MARC Display
Girls
and
their
monsters
: the
Genain
quadruplets
and the
making
of
madness
in
America
/ Audrey Clare Farley.
by
Farley, Audrey Clare.
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2023.
Call #:
362.260922 F231g
Subjects
Quadruplets
-- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects.
Schizophrenia -- Case studies.
Sisters -- Biography.
Mental health -- United States.
ISBN:
9781538724477 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
291 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old identical
quadruplets
in Lansing, Michigan, had all been diagnosed with the mental illness, they could hardly believe
their
ears. Here was incontrovertible proof of hereditary transmission and, thus, a chance to bring international fame to
their
fledgling institution. The case of the pseudonymous
Genain
quadruplets
, they soon found, was hardly so straightforward. Contrary to fawning media portrayals of a picture-perfect Christian family, the sisters had endured the stuff of nightmares. Behind closed doors,
their
parents had taken shocking measures to preserve
their
innocence while sowing fears of sex and the outside world. In public, the
quadruplets
were treated as communal property, as townsfolk and members of the press had long ago projected
their
own paranoid fantasies about the rapidly diversifying American landscape onto the fair-skinned, ribbon-wearing quartet who danced and sang about Christopher Columbus. Even as the sisters' erratic behaviors became impossible to ignore and the NIMH whisked the women off for study,
their
sterling image did not falter.
Girls
and
Their
Monsters
chronicles the extraordinary lives of the
quadruplets
and the lead psychologist who studied them, asking questions that speak directly to our times: How do delusions come to take root, both in individuals and in nations? Why does society profess to be 'saving the children' when it readily exploits them? What are the authoritarian ends of innocence myths? And how do people, particularly those with serious mental illness, go on after enduring the unspeakable? Can the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood help the deeply wounded heal?"--Publisher.
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