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Carolyn Spiro graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed a year of medical residency before going into psychiatry at Harvard’s Mass. Mental Health Center. After ten years in Boston she moved to CT where she has a private psychiatric practice.
During her years in Boston, Carolyn’s identical twin sister Pamela Wagner was first diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a severe biological psychiatric disorder that upended Pam’s life and threw Carolyn’s into turmoil for much of the last four decades. Carolyn and Pamela as co-authors, wrote Divided Minds; Twin Sisters and their Journey Through Schizophrenia, which won them the 2006 Literary Award from NAMI. Published by St Martin’s Press, Divided Minds, also won the Founders’ Society’s Albert J. Solnit Award and was a finalist in the Connecticut Book award of 2006.
Unlike many of her peers, Carolyn Spiro did not always want to be a physician. From childhood she had dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. After her sophomore year at Brown University, Carolyn took time off to dance in New York City. After ten months she realized that the dream of dancing professionally was not the reality she'd imagined––she loved to dance, but she was not cut out to dance for a living. Decision made, she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College and from there went on to medical school.
Carolyn eventually found her way back to dance and became a top level amateur ballroom dancer. She'll dance anything including international folk dancing, to hustle, salsa and west coast swing. Of course there's still ballet.
Divorced for 5, after 17 years of marriage, in January 2005, thanks to Match.com, she met Sal. Their first telephone conversation lasted over three hours during which she knew (if he wasn’t lying) that he was “the one.” They married in 2008.
Currently, when she is not seeing patients, or dancing, Carolyn is completing a novel about a woman physician who has lost everything and grapples with facing her mistakes and starting her life over again. Of course, there are subplots involving psychiatric hospitals, and villainous doctors, worrisome patients and difficult friends, the evil health system… and a few surprises. But really it's about all that people do for love, in love and out of it….
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