David viscott biography

American physician

David Steven Viscott (May 24, 1938 – October 10, 1996) was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality.

He was a graduate of Dartmouth (1959), Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston.

David viscott biography

He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California.^[1]

Biography

In 1980 Viscott began presenting his own full-time show on talk radio, and was notably one of the first psychiatrists to do so (talk station KABC).

He screened telephone calls and gave considerable amount of free psychological counselling to his on-air "patients."

In 1987 Viscott briefly had his own live syndicatedTV show, Getting in Touch with Dr. David Viscott, providing much the same service as his radio show.

In fact, the show