
Revisiting the “Poster Girls for Psychiatric Genetics"
Awais Aftab, MD, and author Audrey Clare Farley, PhD, discuss Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America.
“The Genain quadruplets have really gone down in psychiatric history for being the ‘poster girls’ for psychiatric genetics.”
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In this interview with Psychiatric Times® Editorial Board Member Awais Aftab, MD, about Girls and Their Monsters, Farley discusses the quadruplets’ lives, their impact on psychiatric history, NIMH’s research on them between the 1950s and 1990s, and the role of sexual and racial trauma in mental illness and psychiatric research.
Dr Aftab is a psychiatrist in Cleveland, Ohio, and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. He has been actively involved in initiatives to educate psychiatrists and trainees on the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. He leads the interview series “
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