Frederick Brown is an Emeritus Associate Psychology Professor at Penn State University and also was an associate faculty of its Schreyer Honors College and the former Science, Technology, and Society program. His psychology degrees are A.B. Hope College, Holland, MI, M.S. Syracuse University, and Ph.D. University of Virginia. Earlier he chaired psychology and psychobiology programs at The Centre College of Kentucky, and was the Chief Psychology department of the Kentucky State Hospital. He was also elected President of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Earliest positions included medical technician in biology and chemistry at the V.A. Hospital and Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse.
Dr. Brown was a research psychologist studying the rhythms of life, especially the near-24-hr circadian rhythm including sleep and sleep disturbances. He co-edited with Dr. R. Curtis Graeber, NASA COL (ret.), the seminal resource book on behavioral rhythms, Rhythmic Aspects of Behavior (1982), recently reprinted in 2020.
Dr. Brown initiated with the Penn State Commonwealth Campuses an introductory course in positive psychology and wellbeing. He co-authored Positive Psychology and Well-Being: Applications for Enhanced Living (2017) with his wife and research collaborator, psychologist and statistician Dr. Cynthia LaJambe. He also was Editor-in-chief for the International Positive Psychology Association’s Division 4: Health and Wellbeing’s first two editions of the Chronicle of Advances in Scientific Research in Positive Psychology.
D r. Brown is a Pennsylvania licensed psychologist, and a Certified and Approved Hypnotherapist by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He specializes in stress management, pain management, major surgery preparation, public speaking anxiety, and sleeping disturbances using cognitive behavioral therapy, mindful hypnotherapy, mental strength training, and holistic mind-body integration.
