Milton Brown

California School of Professional Psychology

Clinical Psychology

San Diego Campus

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Alliant International University San Diego
10455 Pomerado Road
San Diego CA 92131

858-635-4880

mibrown@alliant.edu

Personality disorders; suicidality and self-injury; shame and self-hatred; rejection sensitivity; cognitive-behavior therapy; exposure therapy; dialectical behavior therapy.

Rizvi, S.L., Brown, M., & Linehan, M.M., & Bohus, M. (2011). In R. Dearing & J.P. Tangney (Eds.), Shame in the Therapy Hour. American Psychological Association.

Dimeff, L.A., Koerner, K., Woodcock, E.A., Beadnell, B., Brown, M.Z., Skutch, J.M., Paves, A.P., Bazinet, A., Harned, M.S. (2009). Which training method works best? A randomized controlled trial comparing three methods of training clinicians in dialectical behavior therapy skills. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(11), 921-930.

Brown, M.Z., Comtois, K., Murray, A., Linehan, M., & Chapman, A.L. (2009). Shame as a Prospective Predictor of Self-Inflicted Injury in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Multi-modal Analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 815-822.

Chen, E., Brown, M., Harned, M., & Linehan, M. (2009). A comparison of borderline personality disorder with and without eating disorders. Psychiatry Research, 170, 86-90.

Swanson, K.S., Gevirtz, R., Brown, M., Spira, J., Guarneri, E., & Stoletniy, L. (2009). The effect of biofeedback on function in patients with heart failure. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 34(2), 71-91.

Linehan, M., McDavid, J., Brown, M., Sayrs, J., & Gallop, R.J. (2008). Olanzapine plus dialectical behavior therapy for irritable women meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder: A double blind, placebo-controlled pilot study. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 999-1005.

Chapman, A.L., & Brown, M.Z. (2007). Cognitive behavioural theory of suicidal behaviour. In: A. Shrivastava (Ed.). International Handbook of Suicide Behaviour. Gaskell Publications

Brown, M.Z., & Chapman, A.L. (2007). Stopping self-harm once and for all: Relapse prevention in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In G.A. Marlatt & K. Witkiewitz (Eds.), Therapist's Guide to Evidence-Based Relapse Prevention. Academic Press.

Chen, E.Y., Brown, M.Z., Lo, T., & Linehan, M.M. (2007). Sexually transmitted disease rates and high-risk sexual behaviors in borderline personality disorder versus borderline personality disorder with substance use disorder. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 195(2), 125-129.

Rosen, G., Sawchuk, C., Atkins, D., Brown, M., Lees-Haley, P., & Price, J. (2006). Risk of false positives when identifying malingered profiles using the trauma symptom inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86(3), 329-33.

Linehan, M., Comtois, K., Murray, A., Brown, M., Gallop, R., Heard, H., Korslund, K., Tutek, D., Reynolds, S., Lindenboim N. (2006). Two-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up of dialectical behavior therapy vs therapy by experts for suicidal behaviors and borderline personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(7), 757-766.

Brown, M. (2006). Linehan's theory of suicidal behavior: Theory, research, and dialectical behavior therapy. In: T. Ellis (Ed.), Cognition and Suicide: Theory, Research, and PracticeGuilford Press.

Chapman, A., Gratz, K., & Brown, M. (2006). Solving the Puzzle of Deliberate Self-Harm: The Experiential Avoidance Model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 371-394.

Linehan, M.M., Comtois, K.A., Brown, M.Z., Heard, H.L., & Wagner, A. (2006). Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Interview (SASII): Development, reliability, and validity of a scale to assess suicide attempts and intentional self-injury. Psychological Assessment, 18(3), 303-312.

Brown, M., Comtois, K.A., & Linehan, M. (2002). Reasons for suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111(1), 198-202.

Brown, M. (2002). The impact of negative emotions on the efficacy of treatment for chronic parasuicide in borderline personality disorder. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Washington.

Ivanoff, A., Brown, M., & Linehan, M.M., (2001). Dialectical behavior therapy for for impulsive self-injurious behaviors. In D. Simeon, E. Hollander (Eds.), Self-Injurious Behaviors: Assessment and Treatment. American Psychiatric Press.

Dimeff, L.A., Rizvi, S.L., Brown, M., & Linehan, M.M. (2000). Dialectical Behavior Therapy for substance abuse: A pilot application to methamphetamine-dependent women with borderline personality disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 7, 457-468.

Jensen, M.P., Barber, J., Williams-Avery, R.M., Flores, L., & Brown, M. (2000). The effect of hypnotic suggestion on spinal cord injury pain. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 14, 3-10.

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Washington, 2002

B.A. in Psychology, Stanford University

California Psychologist License PSY20785 (2006)-2006

American Psychological Association

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Presentation slides and handouts

Behavioral Technology and Transfer Group, Seattle, WA

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Center of San Diego