What It Was Like to Report on a Family Plagued by Schizophrenia

A family in which 6 of 12 siblings were affected presented a unique opportunity for researchers

Robert Kolker
GEN
Published in
7 min readApr 7, 2020

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Photo illustration. Source photo courtesy of the author.

InIn early 2016, a friend introduced me to two sisters, Margaret Galvin Johnson and Lindsay Galvin Rauch, now both in their fifties, who were the youngest siblings and the only girls in a Colorado…

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Robert Kolker
GEN
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#1 New York Times best-selling author of “Hidden Valley Road” (an Oprah’s Book Club selection) and “Lost Girls”