Daniel P. Brown

Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Newton, Massachusetts, and an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Trained in Buddhist philosophy and languages at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he did his dissertation on Mahamudra meditation texts, he has maintained close relations with Tibetan teachers of the Gelug, Kagyu, and Nyingma lineages for more than forty-eight years as well as exploring the Theravada mindfulness traditions in Burma and Thailand. The author of 23 books, including Transformations of Consciousness, and Memory, Trauma Treatment and the Law, which won the 1999 Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry & Law for outstanding contribution to forensic psychiatry for his book, Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law. As an expert legal witness, Dr. Brown has testified in over 200 child abuse cases and served as an expert witness for prosecutors at the International War Crimes Tribunal, helping them establish a standard of evidence for victims of war atrocities. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.