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100 1  Farley, Audrey Clare,|eauthor. 
245 10 Girls and their monsters :|bthe Genain quadruplets and the
       making of madness in America /|cAudrey Clare Farley. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bGrand Central Publishing,|c2023. 
300    291 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-291). 
520    "In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National 
       Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics 
       of schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old
       identical quadruplets in Lansing, Michigan, had all been 
       diagnosed with the mental illness, they could hardly 
       believe their ears. Here was incontrovertible proof of 
       hereditary transmission and, thus, a chance to bring 
       international fame to their fledgling institution. The 
       case of the pseudonymous Genain quadruplets, they soon 
       found, was hardly so straightforward. Contrary to fawning 
       media portrayals of a picture-perfect Christian family, 
       the sisters had endured the stuff of nightmares. Behind 
       closed doors, their parents had taken shocking measures to
       preserve their innocence while sowing fears of sex and the
       outside world. In public, the quadruplets were treated as 
       communal property, as townsfolk and members of the press 
       had long ago projected their own paranoid fantasies about 
       the rapidly diversifying American landscape onto the fair-
       skinned, ribbon-wearing quartet who danced and sang about 
       Christopher Columbus. Even as the sisters' erratic 
       behaviors became impossible to ignore and the NIMH whisked
       the women off for study, their sterling image did not 
       falter. Girls and Their Monsters chronicles the 
       extraordinary lives of the quadruplets and the lead 
       psychologist who studied them, asking questions that speak
       directly to our times: How do delusions come to take root,
       both in individuals and in nations? Why does society 
       profess to be "saving the children" when it readily 
       exploits them? What are the authoritarian ends of 
       innocence myths? And how do people, particularly those 
       with serious mental illness, go on after enduring the 
       unspeakable? Can the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood help 
       the deeply wounded heal?"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Quadruplets|zUnited States. 
650  0 Schizophrenia|zUnited States. 
650  0 Mental health|zUnited States.