To better your understanding of non-clinical career options and/or facilitate your physician career change, today we introduce you to Paul Brenner, MD, PhD. Dr. Brenner is a physician and counseling psychologist. He is the author of many books and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on the psychology of health and illness and the unconscious patterns that run our lives.
Also, corporations such as WalMart, Microsoft, Disney, Disney International, Fleetwood International and Rhino Records have used Dr. Brenner’s “Family Triangle Process” for team building and understanding the reason why individuals fall into given categories when tested by various psychological inventories.
Dr. Brenner began his career in academic and clinical medicine as an OB/GYN with a sub-specialty in Female Oncology. During a sabbatical, he serendipitously began to counsel patients with life threatening illnesses. As a result, his life dramatically changed. He left the practice of medicine as he had known it and saw one person a day with chronic or terminal illness.
These wise transparent individuals became his teachers. Dr. Brenner learned the relationship between emotions and health and illness. For him, health became the appreciation and acceptance of life, self and other. This led Dr. Brenner to search for those repetitive, unconscious patterns that set the stage for illness. This understanding also helped him manage his own cancer.
Fascinated by how emotions integrate the mind and body, he obtained a doctorate in counseling psychology. Dr. Brenner has also studied transcultural and integrative healing in South America, Taiwan and China.
Dr. Brenner is the author of Health is a Question of Balance, A Shared Creation, Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes, Buddha in the Waiting Room and Love Made Visible. He is a member of the Life Wellness Institute of San Diego and is a consultant for Praxis creative leadership systems that specializes in executive coaching, team building and organizational leadership development.
Dr. Brenner’s honors include the Life Devotion Award received in Taiwan, The San Diego Enlightenment Award and The University of California San Diego School of Medicine Physicians Teaching Award. He has appeared on Public Television and moderated the award winning K.P.B.S series, Healing Through Communication.
Dr. Brenner received his B.A. from Brown University, his M.D. from New York Medical College and held an American Cancer Fellowship in Female Oncology. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from The International University of Professional Psychology.
This biography is available at the SpeakersOnHealthcare website.
