Julia A. Sherman PhD

Born in 1934 in Akron, Ohio, Julia A. Sherman received her bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University in three years, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. In another three years, she had a PhD from the University of Iowa. Her book On the Psychology of Women: A Survey of Empirical Studies won recognition as the first scientific book on the psychology of women and earned her the unusual honor of election to Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association of Psychological Science even though she held no professorial position. She continued to fulfill that early promise with important, original contributions to the question of why there weren’t more women in mathematics. She served on the APA Committee on Women and as Associate Editor of the nascent Psychology of Women Quarterly.

In 2019, she published her memoir, Beating Depression and Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs: A Memoir of Survival in a Male-Dominated World. Meticulously researched and documented, Sherman’s cutting-edge knowledge can be used to manage depression and bipolar disorder without drugs, as she demonstrates from her personal experience of being drug-free and healthy for twenty years. Written by a woman, for women, the book has nonetheless been warmly embraced by men.

Now, she breaks ground again.

Now, she breaks ground again with her new book The Neanderthal-Human Hybrid Is Us: Bipolar Disorder, A Behavioral Fossil which explores the research into the cause and treatment of bipolar disorder and the role of Neanderthal genes in modern humans.