David Viscott

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David Viscott


Born
in The United States
May 24, 1938

Died
October 10, 1996


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 a
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The Language of Feelings

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The Making of a Psychiatrist

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Emotionally Free

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Risking

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Feel Free

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I Love You, Let's Work It Out

3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions
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The Viscott Method

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Finding Your Strength in Life

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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
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“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
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“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”
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