![]() Insisting that they were raising a model family, the Galvins refused to acknowledge problems, such as violent fights among the older brothers, which the parents dismissed as merely roughhousing. Mimi was a perfectionist who controlled every aspect of the children’s lives: chores, enriching after-school activities, and feelings, which she believed should best be repressed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mimi seemed to crave the distinction of “being known as a mother who could easily accomplish such a thing.” In addition, Kolker speculates, the children may have assuaged an abiding feeling of abandonment, including by a husband more focused on his career than his family. Religious beliefs-both parents were Catholic-were not the only reason for their fecundity. Don and Mimi Galvin had 12 children-10 boys and two girls-born between 19. In a riveting and disquieting narrative, Kolker ( Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, 2013) interweaves a biography of the Galvin family with a chronicle of medicine’s treatment of, and research into, schizophrenia. One family’s history reveals the mystery of schizophrenia. ![]()
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