Why
an American Body Psychotherapist
Preferred Europe is an insightful look at the
connections between intimate relationships, professional
development, and cultural conditioning.
Resembling
a life-long case study, Dr. Malcolm Brown creates a two-part
autobiography detailing the soul-moving realities of the
neurotic suffering and immature choices of his earlier years
followed by a more disciplined, integrated period of personal
dedication towards offering a new style of body psychotherapy.
As a young
man in America, Dr. Brown found that the American culture
dictated he portray the false persona of an extrovert,
unknowingly betraying his true personality as an introvert. Dr.
Brown takes readers on his journey from an emotionally absent
father, to his first disastrous marriage at the tender age of
23, to the harsh realities he faced while a soldier in the U.S.
Army, and to his lengthy courtship of a French psychiatric nurse
in London that ended in divorce. We gain insight into our own
lives through his honest descriptions of his life struggles and
neurotic mistakes in judgment about the women in his life from
an in-depth and fully explored psychological perspective.
With time
and experience often comes wisdom and personal growth. The
second half begins his healing transformation out of neurosis as
he builds a private practice of an original style of body
psychotherapy called Organismic Psychotherapy and with his
professional colleague and third wife Katherine offers five-year
International Training Programs across Europe and the USA. The
theories behind his style of body psychotherapy, as presented in
his book, The Healing Touch, published in four languages in
1980, are further refined and elaborated upon in this book.
