Paul Browde

Paul Browde is a psychiatrist and teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. The ethical stance of Narrative therapy shapes his clinical work. He works with both individuals and couples exploring the relational space and the reciprocal relationship between listening and telling.

Paul is co-creator and performer of Two Men Talking, a live, unscripted personal storytelling performance that began as deeply personal research, through storytelling, of identity, friendship, mortality and forgiveness. Paul has performed Two Men Talking hundreds of times internationally, including at the Edinburgh Festival, in major theaters in South Africa, on the West End of London and Off Broadway. A TEDx talk entitled “The Power of Two” explores the methodology that informs the performance of Two Men Talking and Paul’s clinical work.

As co-founder of Narativ, a storytelling company, he has worked closely with the Open Society Foundations, teaching advocacy through personal storytelling. In this effort, he has worked with sex workers, people with intellectual disabilities, recipients of oral substitution therapy, Roma doctors and AIDS activists from countries including Croatia, Moldova, Ukraine, Macedonia, Lithuania, and several countries in Central and Southern Africa.