Insights into mental illness from a poet with schizophrenia and her psychiatrist twin sister

by HART 1-800-HART on May 3, 2006 · 0 comments

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Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia by Pamela Spiro Wagner ’75 and Carolyn S. Spiro ’74 (St. Martin’s Press).

The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated became a splitting point in the lives of twin sisters Carolyn Spiro and Pamela Spiro Wagner. When word spread through their sixth-grade classrooms that Kennedy had been shot, Spiro couldn’t understand why the adults were so upset. Wagner, however, began hearing voices whose meaning she gradually deciphered: she had helped kill the president. …

[MORE: BAM: Double Vision, Arts and Culture, May/June 2006]

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