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Born in April 1956, Carl Dawntreader grew up in and around Memphis, Tennessee to which he returned in September 1994, after spending seven years in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He received formal training in organic medicinal chemistry at the University of Tennessee and the University of Minnesota, and in Medicine, at East Central University Medical School in the Dominican Republic. Over the years, he worked as a surgical assistant, an analytical chemist, a scientist in pharmaceutical research, and at other intellectual pursuits, blithely ignoring the development of the entire emotional aspect of his nature, until he found himself in jail, bleeding, screaming, and crazy – floundering in the blackest depths of a drug addiction of the most savage, destructive, and intractable type.
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The unequivocal success of his recovery and cure through the psychoself-explorative therapy that he developed presents a direct challenge to the fundamental philosophy that underlies the majority current approaches to chemical dependency treatment in America. He now lives with his wife, Allyson, 5-yr-old daughter, Ariana, and their little black cat, 8-ball, devoting any time remaining after work, family needs, and computer upgrades to developing and promoting the vision set forth in his first book, Of Frogs and Princes.
