Judith Brown, Ph.D. Editorial Board of The Gestalt Journal

Judith R. Brown is a psychotherapist in private practice, trainer of therapists, lecturer and writer. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California in 1977 and has been licensed in Marriage and Family Therapy since 1976. She was a student of Fritz Perls in 1967 when he invited her to be a co-therapist with him in a 4-week Gestalt Therapy Workshop at Esalen Institute. In 1970 she began teaching the Gestalt approach in Europe, the U. S., and Canada with her husband, George I. Brown. Dr. Brown is the author of books on couples relationships and family dynamics as well as a number of articles. Her most recent articles are “Researcher as Instrument: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Gestalt and Qualitative Methodology,” Gestalt Review, Vol.1, No. 1, 1997, “Relationship and Subjectivity in Supervision,” in Practical Applications in Supervision, Manual of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, 1998, and “Working with Couples in the Current Environment,” Journal of Couples Therapy, Volume 8, 1999. Her most recent book is The I in Science: Training to Utilize Subjectivity in Research, published in 1996 by The Scandinavian University Press. A second edition of her first book, Back to the Beanstalk: Enchantment and Reality for Couples, was published by The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Press,1998.