Liz Casper
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Liz Casper is a former doctor who has also worked as an artist and writer. She is the author of Brilliant, Beautiful, Bipolar and Learning to Heal, autobiographical books drawing respectively on her experience as a psychiatric patient and on her medical training and career. [1][2]
Career and work
Casper trained as a doctor, completing medical school and residency before working in private practice. She has described herself as a fourth-generation doctor and the first woman in her family to enter the profession. [3][2]
After leaving medicine, Casper pursued work as an artist and writer. She published Brilliant, Beautiful, Bipolar, an autobiographical account of her experience with bipolar disorder, followed by Learning to Heal, which reflects on medical school, residency, private practice and her own experience as a patient. [1][2]
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Official websiteLiz Casper Provides Casper’s biography and identifies her as an artist, writer, former doctor and person living with bipolar disorder.
Liz Casper“About the Books” Covers Brilliant, Beautiful, Bipolar, Learning to Heal, Casper’s medical career and her perspective on mental-health care.
Rick Flynn PresentsLiz Casper interview Covers Casper’s background as a fourth-generation doctor and the first woman in her family to enter medicine.
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Google BooksBrilliant, Beautiful, Bipolar Publisher material covering Casper’s diagnosis, initial rejection of it and the subject of her memoir.
Own Your Essence“Beyond The Diagnosis: Awakening Through Adversity With Liz Casper” Interview covering depression, seasonal mood changes, prolonged mania, psychiatric hospitalization and jail.
EverandBrilliant, Beautiful, Bipolar Preview of Casper’s memoir containing her first-person discussion of medication, stability and her reasons for writing the book.
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