title: First person account: three generations of schizophrenia.
abstract: The author gives an account of three generations of schizophrenia from the changing perspective of childhood through adulthood, as niece, sister, and mother. She describes the impact on the family in this 50-year span and discusses changing societal attitudes to mental illness as well as changes in treatment and professional thinking.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D012560:Schizophrenia, Catatonic / Q000235:genetics; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013850:Thinking