Liz Casper
Doctor · Artist · Author
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]
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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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“My wish is that you will gain an understanding of the world of someone suffering from unmedicated and medicated bipolar disorder.”
— Liz Casper [6]
