Joy Browne
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This biographical article relies on references to primary sources. (June 2008) |
Joy Browne (born 24 October 1944) also named Dr. Joy, is an American radio psychologist, author, film critic.
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Early life [edit]
Browne was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and educated at Rice University in Houston, TX.
Career [edit]
A graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology, she is a licensed clinical psychologist who was first on the air in Boston at station WITS, where she did a program called Up Close and Personal in the late 1970s.[1]
Today, her syndicated show is one of the longest-running call-in therapy shows in the United States. Until recently, it originated from radio station WOR (New York City).[citation needed] Browne takes a no-nonsense approach to callers, trying to hone in on a problem without getting caught up in a caller's long stories or digressions. Browne is also known for her "one-year rule", which states that people who have lost a spouse or partner due to break-up, death or divorce should wait at a minimum one year before resuming romantic relationships. Dr. Joy is known for her phrase "stupid and cheerful" for dealing with difficult people. Browne has also half-jokingly suggested that people wait until they are 40 or 45 years old before having sex, due to the emotional nakedness involved, in addition to the physical.
Dr. Browne hosted a TV show on the Discovery Health cable channel in 2005 which was a live one-hour simulcast of her weekday show on WOR. She previously hosted a King World-Eyemark weekday syndicated TV advice talk show in 1999 for one year.
She has written numerous books on life and dating, including It’s A Jungle Out There Jane, Dating for Dummies,[2] The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life, Capitalizing on Incompetence, Getting Unstuck, and Dating Disasters.
On September 30, 2010, Dr. Browne joined the cast of the off-Broadway play My Big Gay Italian Wedding for three performances.[3]
Browne is often compared as the antonym to radio psychologist Laura Schlesinger, and has inspired a whole legion of radio hosts after her including Errol Gluck of GluckRadio.
Browne was laid off by WOR on December 20, 2012, after Clear Channel Communications took over the station and began programming its own network hosts on the station. [4]
Since January 2013, Dr. Joy is heard on Radio America from Noon-3:00PM ET. She replaced G. Gordon Liddy, who retired from radio a few months prior. [5]
References [edit]
- ^ Barbara Graustark. "On Air Psychologists: Healers or Exploiters?" New York Times, 9 August 1981, p. D23
- ^ Browne, Joy (2006). Dating for dummies. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-76870-7.
- ^ "Dr. Joy Browne to Guest Star in My Big Gay Italian Wedding: Theater News on TheaterMania.com - 09/07/2010". Retrieved 09-12-2010.
- ^ http://radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2596355&spid=24698 Joy Browne Fired From WOR
- ^ http://www.radioamerica.org/PRG_joybrowne.htm
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