LovedI read and reviewed Kolker's last book, Hidden Valley Road, here on my channel after it came out. I thought that book was really impressive.
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Hidden Valley Road (2020)
Creators: Loved The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
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Lovedit was really interesting for me to see more of the how schizophrenia works or how they think it works explored in this book when I kind of know from my own inpatient experiences and from other stuff I’ve read about more of the what it looks like than the how it works and it was a really good book
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