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Stephen P. Hinshaw

Biography

Stephen P. Hinshaw

Stephen Hinshaw is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the Vice-Chair of Psychology at UC San Francisco. Hinshaw is the author of THE MARK OF SHAME: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change (Oxford, 2007), the first book in the U.S. on mental illness stigma. His research has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

Stephen P. Hinshaw

Books by Stephen P. Hinshaw

Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
by Stephen P. Hinshaw - Memoir, Nonfiction

Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for 18 years within his family --- that his father’s mysterious absences resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. After years of experiencing the ups and downs of his father’s illness without knowing it existed, Hinshaw began to piece together the silent, often terrifying history of his father’s life. This exploration led to larger discoveries about the family saga, to Hinshaw’s correctly diagnosing his father with bipolar disorder, and to his full-fledged career as a clinical and developmental psychologist and professor.