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.

About the Author

Malcolm Brown received his BA degree from Boston University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of London. He has developed his own style of bodywork with the help of his third wife, Katherine, and has formulated a new vision of mind/body interaction which affirms the spiritual evolution of embodied heart-consciousness. He lives in Luzern, Switzerland with his fourth wife, Berta.