Norman M. Brown

Norman M. Brown holds a PhD in Humanities and German Studies from Stanford University and a PhD in Research Psychology from Union Institute. He co-authored the social science textbook "Love and Intimate Relationships" (2000), along with a teachers' guide developed from his own course and yearly conference panels on teaching. Since 1987 he has taught Psychology and Humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. There he developed a course in the Psychology of Relationships, which combines clinical and empirical psychology with other social and biological sciences. As a contributor to research organizations that examine close relationships, he studies intimacy, love, and shame. He also holds a Masters in Clinical Psychology and a license in Marriage and Family Therapy, and has been counseling professionally since 1975. Dr. Brown is developing a comprehensive emotion-centered theory of love, for which he is building bridges between Silvan Tomkins's Affect Theory and the emerging findings of Affective Neuroscience. He uses material from interviews, counseling, and narrative research to link this love theory to the personal experience of individuals. He grew up in Los Angeles and started studying Physics at the University of California, but was soon drawn to Europe, where he studied and fell in love with European cultures. Happily married with a teenage daughter, Dr. Brown also loves teaching, research, counseling, and writing. His hobbies include music, men's growth groups, hiking in the woods, mountains, and foreign travel.

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