Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

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Glenn Close says: “Another Kind of Madness is without doubt one of the best books I’ve read about the price of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I used to be profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw’s story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It’s a masterpiece.”

A deeply personal memoir calling for an end to the dark shaming of mental illness

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was once kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family―that his father’s mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, all over Hinshaw’s first spring break from college, he knew his life would change eternally.

Hinshaw calls this revelation his “psychological birth.” After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father’s illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw began to piece together the silent, frequently terrifying history of his father’s life―in great contrast to his father’s presence and love all over periods of wellness. This exploration led to larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw’s appropriately diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and to his full-fledged career as a clinical and developmental psychologist and professor.

In Another Kind of Madness, Hinshaw explores the burden of living in a family “loaded” with mental illness and debunks the stigma in the back of it. He explains that in today’s society, mental health problems still receive utter castigation―too frequently resulting in the loss of fundamental rights, including the inability to vote or run for office or automatic relinquishment of child custody. Through a poignant and moving family narrative, interlaced with shocking facts about how The united states and the world still view mental health conditions well into in the 21st century, Another Kind of Madness is a passionate call to arms regarding the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.

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