Summary

Chapter 18: In 1975, Lynn DeLisi was building her medical career at a time when the profession was still very discriminatory toward women. She was keen to study schizophrenia and eventually got a position at the National Institute of Mental Health. There she met David Rosenthal and worked with him on a follow-up study of the quadruplets he had examined decades before. This prompted DeLisi to want to study genetics in relation to schizophrenia and she set out to find families with a high instance of the illness.

Chapter 19: Mary struggled after Margaret left, feeling abandoned and still immersed in a difficult home life. In 1973, the family traveled to New Jersey for tests at the Brain Bio Center but there the cause of mental illness was erroneously blamed on malnutrition by Dr. Pfeiffer. Donald continued to vacillate between home and Pueblo, and Mary continued...