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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Louisville, KY – Jan 31, 2012 – Professor James T.R. Jones announces the release of his inspiring memoir, A Hidden Madness.
A Hidden Madness tells the story of an accomplished individual who has reached the pinnacle of
his profession despite suffering for over thirty years from the severe mental illness bipolar
disorder. He has done so mostly in silence because of fear of stigma and discrimination.
Extreme childhood bullying helped cause his condition, which has seen him hospitalized five
times in psychiatric facilities for periods as long as six months. It is an eye-opening voyage
through the little-understood realm of severe mental illness featuring its powerful medications,
periodic hospitalizations, often rocky relationships, and light as well as dark moments.
The story offers both real hope for those afflicted by serious mental illness and deep insight into
their many symptoms, numerous drugs, periodic crises, and potential triumphs. It shows that by
being compliant with a medical regimen of therapy and medication, getting help and support
from others with the same illness, benefitting from a loving family, discovering coping
mechanisms to get through every day, having caring and understanding friends, and being too
stubborn to let a disease ruin his life one can enjoy a successful and fulfilling professional and
personal life.
About the book:
A Hidden Madness by James T.R. Jones
ISBN: 978-0615571546
Publisher: James T.R. Jones
Date of publish: Dec 29, 2011
Pages: 336
S.R.P.: $15.95
About the author:
James T. R. Jones earned an undergraduate degree with highest distinction from the University of
Virginia and a law degree with honors from Duke University School of Law, where he served on
the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal and graduated second in his class. He worked for an
elite law firm on Wall Street, clerked for a judge on the United States Court of Appeals, and was
a finalist for a clerkship with the then-Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Jones taught for a year at the Law School of the University of Chicago, and since 1986 has been
a member of the faculty of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, where
he is a full professor of law. In 2008 he ended twenty-two years of secrecy about his disease at the
Brandeis School of Law and twenty-eight years overall when he wrote the article “Walking the
Tightrope of Bipolar Disorder: The Secret Life of a Law Professor” that was published in the leading
peer-reviewed journal in legal education. The article generated an enormous positive response, as did pieces that appeared in public media in the Louisville area. His disclosure made him one of the only two law professors in the United States publicly to acknowledge having a severe mental illness.
Since 2008 he has spoken extensively about “Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of
Treatment” and is widely recognized for his award-winning mental health advocacy efforts. He
now serves on the Boards of four local and national groups that focus on mental health and the
way society treats those with serious mental illness.
A Hidden Madness includes a foreword by Elyn R. Saks, author of the acclaimed New York
Times bestseller The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness and winner of a 2009
MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” Saks, who is a professor at the Gould School of Law at
the University of Southern California and has schizophrenia, is the only other law professor in
the nation who has openly disclosed suffering from a serious mental illness.
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