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Malcolm Brown, Ph.D. was an american psychologist (18.07.1929 U.S.A. - 26.11.2020 Swiss) he received his BA in Philosophy and Literary Criticism from Boston University and his PhD in Psychology from the University of London.

He was involved in reichian body oriented psychotheraphy with Ola Rakness in the Vegetotherapy Institute of Oslo and in Bioeneregetic therapy with Alexander Lowen in New York. He began his work in London in 1964, organizing and leading training programs as a colleague of Alexander Lowen.

In 1969 he founded the Berkeley Institute of Body Psychotherapy in California, then moved to Europe in the mid-1970s with his third wife and colleague Katherine Ennis Brown where they trained therapists from all over Europe. In Italy they founded in 1980 and co-directed the European Institute of Organismic Psychotherapy (EIOP) and he co-founded the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP). From 1993-2004, with Katherine Ennis Brown, he directed the USA Training in Atlanta where they offered postgraduate training programs in Organismic Psychotherapy.

He has developed Organismic Psychotherapy through years of working with Katherine Ennis Brown (The Shadow and the Body, 2017) which employs bodywork methods on a more spiritual level. "Organismic Psychotherapy" was based on Goldstein’s phenomenology, Maslow’s and Roger’s Humanistic Psychology, Jung’s Analytical Psychology and the Wilhelm Reich's work. It states that change takes place in the whole organism, and it works with the body's mobilization and the nurturing touch. It uses both active and expressive emotional discharge and deep emotional release. Dissolving chronic muscular tensions the aim is to reactive the natural mental and spiritual polarities of the "embodied soul" and transcendental psyche. Brown's theories of body psychotherapy assume as pivotal the importance of the ontological "Being Centers" of Hara, Eros, Logos and the Spiritual Warrior as being the final goals of the de-armoring process. He conducted research into the different functionality of “vertical grounding” (standing position) compared to “horizontal grounding (lying position). His book The Healing Touch, using significant clinical cases as examples, give a greater theoretical clarity and pragmatic appreciation of the use of bodywork approach in a humanistic clinical framework.

Books and writings:

- Brown M., The Healing Touch: An introduction to Organismic Psychotherapy , ‎Life Rhythm, (1990);

- Brown M., Primordial regression and fulfillng sex. An autobiographical account, Author House, Bloomigton, (2005); 

- Brown M., Recenti sviluppi in psicoterapia organismica, in Pini M. (a cura di), Psicoterapia corporeo organistica, Franco Angeli, Milano (2001);

- Brown M., Le applicazioni delle metodiche corporee in psicoterapia organismica: la sinergia fra contatto diretto e il flusso sanguigno, in Pini M. (a cura di), Psicoterapia corporeo organistica, Franco Angeli, Milano (2001);

- Brown Katherine Ennis, The Shadow and the Body, L'ombra e il corpo. Applicazioni cliniche delle teorie di Carl Gustav Jung e di Malcolm Brown, Mimesis, (2017).