Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia

Pamela Spiro Wagner · Carolyn S. Spiro, MD

Mar 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kimberly Farr and Amanda Carlin

About this audiobook

Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and social outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to succumb to schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices and eventually suffering many breakdowns and hospitalizations. Divided Minds is a dual memoir of identical twins, one of whom faces a life sentence of schizophrenia, and the other who becomes a psychiatrist, after entering the spotlight that had for so long been focused on her sister. Told in the alternating voices of the sisters, Divided Minds is a heartbreaking account of the far reaches of madness, as well as the depths of ambivalence and love between twins. It is a true and unusually frank story of identical twins with very different identities and wildly different experiences of the world around them.

About the author

Pamela Spiro Wagner is a writer and poet living in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Carolyn S. Spiro, MD, is a private practice psychiatrist living in Wilton, Connecticut.

Kimberly Farr is an accomplished stage, film, and television actor who has appeared on and off-Broadway, as well as in regional theater productions. An award-winning audiobook narrator, she has recorded over 100 titles.

Amanda Carlin, an accomplished stage, film, and TV actress, has narrated both fiction and nonfiction audiobook titles for multiple producers. A native New Yorker, she now makes her home in Los Angeles. She has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, is adept in domestic dialects and international accents, and speaks French.