As the jet hurtled toward New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on New Year’s Day 2013, the clinical psychologist watched her 16-year-old daughter warily, praying there would be no recurrence of the girl’s inexplicable and bizarre behavior. The previous night, while walking down a street in Spain where the family had spent Christmas, the teenager suddenly began yelling that the traditional New Year’s Eve fireworks were actually bombs. On the flight home, the girl seemed entirely normal. Her mother thought the high school junior might have had a panic attack, stressed by her upcoming college search and impending wisdom teeth extraction. But the...
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