Preface	5
	Acknowledgments	7
	Contents	8
	Chapter 1: The Beginning	10
	The Roots of the Problem	11
	A Call to Arms	13
	Chapter 2: Ernst Rüdin and Family Studies	18
	Task Force 2	19
	The Killing Program	20
	Chapter 3: Franz Kallmann and Twin Studies	30
	An Arduous Task	31
	The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics in America	34
	Chapter 4: The Story of the Genain Sisters	43
	A Horror Show of a Childhood	44
	Aftermath	50
	Chapter 5: Adoption Studies	55
	Chapter 6: The Mass-Marketing of Mental Illness	65
	The Re-branding of Psychiatry	66
	Well-Behaved Little Superachievers	68
	Chapter 7: The Human Genome Project Era	76
	Promises Made	77
	Promises Unfulfilled	81
	Chapter 8: The Story of January Schofield	90
	A Portent of Things to Come	90
	An Ugly Incident	95
	“The overriding factor is love for the child”	98
	A Case of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy?	101
	Chapter 9: Trauma and Psychosis	105
	A Message That Went Unheard	108
	Heartbreaking Realities	111
	“Not just triggers”	115
	The Myth of the Schizophrenogenic Mother	116
	Chapter 10: The Asylum Era and Moral Therapy	125
	Moral Therapy	126
	“The most grievous of human diseases”	128
	Order and Discipline	130
	Astonishing Findings	131
	Chapter 11: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Chestnut Lodge	136
	Rose Garden	137
	The Decline and Fall of Chestnut Lodge	141
	Chapter 12: Ronald Laing and Kingsley Hall	145
	The Land of the Dead	146
	A Quixotic Undertaking	148
	A Troubled and Troubling Figure	149
	Chapter 13: Soteria House and Open Dialogue Therapy	153
	A Compassionate Alternative	153
	A Cure for Schizophrenia	156
	Chapter 14: The Ghosts of Rüdin and Kallmann	159
	References	175
	Index	194