1. David Steven Viscott was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality.
11 Facts About David Viscott
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David Viscott was a graduate of Dartmouth, Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston.
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David Viscott 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.
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David Viscott founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California.
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In 1980 Viscott began presenting his own full-time show on talk radio, and was notably one of the first psychiatrists to do so.
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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.
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David Viscott's autobiography, The Making of a Psychiatrist, was a best-seller, a Book of the Month Club Main Selection, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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David Viscott's popularity peaked in the early 1990s, and then fell sharply.
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David Viscott died in 1996 of heart failure complicated by a diabetic condition.
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David Viscott is survived by three of his four children: Elizabeth, Penelope, and Jonathan.
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David Viscott was later seen as a ghost, claiming that he was "stuck in limbo" in "Treehouse of Horror XXV".