Surrounded By Madness: A Memoir of Mental Illness and Family Secrets

"What was the likelihood my adopted daughter would have

my father's hazel eyes and my mother's mental illness?"

In this fiercely candid memoir, Dr. Pruchno, a scientist widely

acclaimed for her research on mental illness and families, shows how

mental illness threatened to destroy her own family. Not once, but

twice.

As a child, she didn't understand her mother's episodes of

crippling sadness or whirlwind activity. As a mother, she feared her

daughter Sophie would follow in the footsteps of the gra...