Dr. Sabrina Brown

I currently serve as an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of the Kentucky Violent Death Reporting System. I hold a Master of Public Health and a Doctor of Public Health.

I have studied the etiology of violence for over a decade and a half. My primary research interests have focused on intimate partner violence, suicide, veteran suicide, homicide-followed by suicide, infant and child death, elder maltreatment, perpetration of fatal violence, developing statewide surveillance and reporting systems, and system evaluation.

Over the years, as I sat on expert intimate partner violence panels and listened to advocates, I realized that I too was in a violent relationship. When I finally started the process of separation and divorce I realized that it was much more, I was dealing with a sociopath.

As the abuse continued following our formal divorce, I started to blog in February of 2012. I made a decision to take my journal on-line, making my story available to others, but under the protection of an alias. The process from blog to book, under my real identity, has been agonizingly difficult—an unexpected internal struggle. It has taken five years to not only write my book, but to find the courage to uncover and claim myself. Fear has gotten in the way of so much and fear has kept me imprisoned. My transformation to living freely is manifesting, in part, with the publication of my book, “I Married a Sociopath.”