First, Dr. Marusak talks to Lindsay Rauch, the youngest of 12 siblings and 6 of the siblings had schizophrenia. Her family was the personal focus of a fantastic book called ‘Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family”, which also gives a wonderful history of schizophrenia in the US . Then, Dr. Marusak interviews Dr. Gil Hoftman, a psychiatrist and researcher at UCLA who specializes in the study and treatment of schizophrenia.
Resources: The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) website (nami.org) and the Henry Amador Center on Anosognosia website (HAcenter.org), the Galvin Family Trust (GalvinFamilyTrust@gmail.com). The book about Lindsay's family can be found on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Hidden-Valley-Road-Inside-American/dp/038554376X .
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