A Lethal InheritanceA Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
by Victoria Costello
A Lethal Inheritance
subtitled A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
Victoria Costollo
Through no fault of the book's, I somehow convinced myself it would be more history and less science. Thus I was disappointed...but only the tiniest little bit so. You can't manufacture family history to make a great story better--but you can tell the truth. (She did.)
It's a story of one mother and her difficult fight for her two son's mental health--and ultimately her own--but it's also a story of the science, research, history and future of mental illness in the world. I can't even list all off that topics that pop up in this book--genetics, environmental factors, schizophrenia, suicide, recovery, early detection and prevention, family secrets, Roscommon Ireland, the Catholic church... It's not a long book in pages but I didn't feel that any topic was given a shallow treatment, either. In fact, for the first time in a long time, I'm going to flip through her bibliography and see if anything belongs on my to-read list.
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