NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick is Robert Kolker's "Hidden Valley Road," an in-depth account of a 1950s family in which six of 12 children were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Winfrey ...

To an outsider, the Galvins appeared to be a picture-perfect 1960s American family: a father who was an Air Force Academy official, a mother with a love for baking, the eldest son a football star. But ...

Schizophrenia in pop culture is more than a mental illness. It is a diagnosis for monstrosity. The word “schizophrenia” was coined in the name of medical enlightenment. Thought up by Swiss ...

Robert Kolker, author of the excellent true-crime book “Lost Girls,” here examines the Galvins, a midcentury American family whose story offers a history of the science of schizophrenia (six of the ...

Five years ago, the book Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday) became a literary phenomenon. The alternately inspiring and terrifying story centers on the Galvin family ...