false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255839744m/3097553.jpg 3097553 1 In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia.<br><br>For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophrenia&#8211;a disease that had claimed a great-great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. <br><br>As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright but impossible to ignore. Devastated by the emotional toll the disease had already taken on his family, terrified of passing it on to any children he might have, and inspired by the recent discovery of the first genetic link to schizophrenia, Tracey followed his genealogical trail from Boston to Ireland's county Roscommon, home of his oldest-known schizophrenic ancestor. In a renovated camper, Tracey crossed the Emerald Isle to investigate the country that, until the 1960s, had the world's highest rate of institutionalization for mental illness, following clues and separating fact from fiction in the legendary relationship the Irish have had with madness. <br><br>Tracey's path leads from fairy mounds and ancient caverns still shrouded in superstition to old pubs whose colorful inhabitants are a treasure trove of local lore. He visits the massive and grim asylum where his famine starved ancestors may have lived. And he interviews the Irish research team that first cracked the schizophrenic code to learn how much&#8211;and how little&#8211;we know about this often misunderstood disease. <br><br>Filled with history, science, and lore, <b>Stalking Irish Madness</b> is an unforgettable chronicle of one man's attempt to make sense of his family's past and to find hope for the future of schizophrenic patients. 3128708 26 8 2008 Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia total:74|5:9|4:22|3:28|2:14|1:1| 74 246 206 34 3 1 false true Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 06:22:20 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 04:56:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 10:55:18 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 12:17:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 23 12:56:29 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 14:05:45 -0700 2009
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The problem with this book is that it defies being one genre and could be many - travelogue, family memoir, researched nonfiction - but doesn't do well at any of them. Some of the lines he writes are awfu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 09:35:40 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 06:56:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 12:57:39 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 13:27:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 10:12:47 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 08 08:44:54 -0700 2009 My Father’s Paradise, this book is also written by a journalist investigating his family’s heritage. Patrick Tracey traveled to Ireland instead of Iraq, searching for the origins of schizophrenia rather than Jewish tradition, but ultimately the two books share a similar th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 16:52:09 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 21:02:15 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 09:04:34 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 09:07:58 -0800 2009
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