about
Dr. Marie Brown is a Psychologist in New York City. She received her PhD from Long Island University Brooklyn and completed her predoctoral internship at New York University - Bellevue Hospital Center. Her educational background is in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (BA, SUNY Stony Book) and Clinical Psychology (MA, Columbia University). During her doctorate, she received clinical training at Columbia University Medical Center, Lieber Recovery Clinic, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, and Weill-Cornell - New York Presbyterian Hospital. Additionally, she completed a two-year postdoctoral research and clinical fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. During fellowship, Marie Brown was given the Trainee Recognition Award from Division 18 SMI/SED section of the American Psychological Association (APA) for her research, clinical, and advocacy work. She is Board Certified in Serious Mental Illness Psychology by the American Board of Serious Mental Illness Psychology, a provisional affiliate of the American Board of Professional Psychology.
She is the current President of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis US Chapter (ISPS-US) and Secretary of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Severe Emotional Disturbance (TFSMI/SED).
Additionally, Marie Brown is co-editor of three books, Women and Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (both with Marilyn Charles), and Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (with Robin S. Brown), and the author/co-author of numerous research articles and book chapters on topics such as hearing voices and other anomalous experiences, postpartum psychosis, trauma, women's mental health, and transforming the mental healthcare system.
In addition to her clinical and academic work, she was an original co-founder of Hearing Voices Network in NYC (Hearing Voices Network NYC). She has a deep commitment to promoting current/former service user involvement in mental health care research, policy, and clinical work.
