Divided minds twin sisters and their journey through schizophrenia by pamela spiro wagner and carolyn s spiro md is a memoir of mental illness and coping with a loved ones mental illness the segments from both sisters one with schizophrenia one a licensed psychiatrist describe the world as each experienced it often retelling the same set of events from each sisters perspective at the time. Divided minds provides some insight into schizophrenia but its premise that identical sisters one with schizophrenia and one without would give special insight into the disease was frustrated by an undefined repetitive image gray crinkled paper and the denial of carolyn the nonschizophrenic psychiatrist twin. Divided minds twin sisters and their journey through schizophrenia the book divided minds by pamela spiro wagner and carolyn s spiro md is an autobiographical account of these twins they are identical twins but clearly different from birth