Browne did her graduate work at
Northeastern University in
Boston,
Massachusetts, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in
psychology. She was a licensed clinical psychologist who was first on the air in
Boston at
WITS, where she hosted a program called
Up Close and Personal in the late 1970s. She later hosted call-in shows on radio stations in
San Francisco and
New York City. Her
syndicated show was one of the longest-running call-in therapy shows in the United States. She 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. 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 wrote numerous books on life and dating, including
It’s A Jungle Out There Jane,
Dating for Dummies,
The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life,
Capitalizing on Incompetence,
Getting Unstuck, and
Dating Disasters. On September 30, 2010, Browne joined the cast of the off-Broadway play
My Big Gay Italian Wedding for three performances. Browne's call-in therapy show was heard for two decades at 710 WOR in New York and was syndicated to other cities via the
WOR Radio Network. She was released by WOR on December 20, 2012, after
iHeartMedia bought the station and brought in its own network hosts. Bumper music for the show was often the bass line from the
Nick Lowe song "Cracking Up." Beginning in January 2013, Browne was heard on
Radio America from Noon-3p.m. ET on weekdays. On September 8, 2014, she switched to the Genesis Communications Network (GCN), continuing her syndicated radio show in the same time slot. ==Personal life and death==