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22 March 2006

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters' Journey
Through Schizophrenia

Pamela Spiro Wagner

Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D.

What is the experience of schizophrenia-- from the inside, as one with the disease, but also from the perspective of one who is close to the sufferer? Indentical twins Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn Spiro reflect on their experiences with schizophrenia, a bond between them stronger even than their twinship, vividly and insightfully captured in their dual memoir, Divided Minds.


Pamela Spiro Wagner is a nationally recognized poet, who also suffers from schizophrenia.

Carolyn Spiro attended  Brown University before receiving her Bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College and subsequently graduated from Harvard Medical School, with a degree in psychiatry. She  works as a psychiatrist in private practice in Connecticut. 

Co-presented with the Department of Psychiatric Medicine
and the Virginia Festival of the Book