Dr. Simon grew up in Brooklyn New York. He graduated from New York University and then graduated from Tufts medical school in Boston. He interned in Medicine at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn then...view moreDr. Simon grew up in Brooklyn New York. He graduated from New York University and then graduated from Tufts medical school in Boston. He interned in Medicine at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn then did his residency at the McLean Hospital in Belmont Massachusetts and the New England Medical Center. He is Board Certified Psychiatrist .He has three children from three wives and has had a difficult life in terms of own Mental Health. Thanks to the help of modern medicine he has overcome his difficulties and the struggle he went though in his life is documented in the three-volume trilogy he wrote. Each of the periods of his life is discussed both from a personal and professional point of view. The book is written to help elaborate and shed some light on the difficulties facing both the Psychiatrist and the patient in the treatment of mental disease.view less