Dr. Curran is a graduate of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Hecompleted a medical surgical internship at Saint Luke's Hospitalin New York City and a psychiatric residency at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, also in New York. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His book isbased on fifty years' experience providing consulting servicesat state and private mental hospitals, county and private mental health centers, nursing homes, and residential treatment centers for adolescent sexual offenders and adult alcoholics, as well as a few years of clinical research and forty-four years of private practice.