David Steven Viscott (May 24, 1938 â€" 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. 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.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 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
syndicated TV show, Getting in Touch with Dr. David Viscott, providing
much the same service as his radio show. In fact, the shows ran
concurrently. In the early 1990s he had a weekly call-in therapy
television program on KNBC in Los Angeles early Sunday morning after
Saturday Night Live, titled Night Talk with Dr. David
Viscott.Viscott's signature style was to attempt to isolate an
individual's source of emotional problems in a very short amount of
time. Many of his books were of a self-help nature, written to assist
the individual with his/her own examination of life. His
autobiography, The Making of a Psychiatrist, was a best-seller, a Book
of the Month Club Main Selection, and nominated for the Pulitzer
Prize. David Viscott Top Movies & Young Movies