about
Dr. Marie Brown is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York City and current Team Leader for the Lenox Hill OnTrack and Early Treatment Program. 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 Irving 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.
Marie Brown 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 four books, Women and Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2019, Lexington Books), Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (2019, Lexington Books) (both with Marilyn Charles), Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (2021, Routledge) (with Robin S. Brown), and Psychosocial Approaches to Negative Symptoms in Psychosis (2025, Oxford University Press) (with Tania Lincoln & David Kimhy). She is author/co-author of numerous research articles and book chapters on topics such as hearing voices and other anomalous experiences, postpartum psychosis, 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.
