No. 21561 David Viscott
Books written by David Viscott include:
Labyrinth of Silence. (1970)
The Making of a Psychiatris. (1972)
Dorchester Boy. (1973)
Risking. (1976)
What Every Kid Should Know. (1976)
The Language of Feelings. (1977)
How to Live with Another Person. (1983)
The Viscott Method. (1984)
Feel Free. (1985)
Taking Care of Business. (1985)
I Love You, Let’s Work It Out. (1987)
Emotionally Free. (1992)
Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times. (1993)
A Book of Meditations. (1993)
Emotional Resilience. (1996)
From Wiipedia:
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.[citation needed] 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.
Along with psychiatric advice, he would fall back on his medical knowledge to regularly devote entire segments of radio to answering medical questions. During these segments he would give medical advice. Many of the questions answered had to do with pharmacological advice. This was unique in the world of talk radio.
Re: Dorchester Boy
Dr. Viscott, sometime purveyor of easy-does-it therapeutic pablum, but also author of the popular The Making of a Psychiatrist, has in this sequel skipped back — in a style refreshingly free of professional jargon — to his early childhood in a Boston suburb where no one ever saw, much less became, a shrink. His background was the moderately successful, striving, quasi-cultured, childcentered (“”I was taken everywhere a kid could be taken””) Jewish middle class; young David’s druggist father was a frustrated doctor, his “”brilliant”” mother remained a housewife, and living upstairs were two old-country grandparents and a much traveled schoolmarm maiden aunt. His was the ordinary life of the Truman-Eisenhower age: school and disputes with teachers (he was bad in penmanship), clashes with a gang on the block, helping out in the family business, summers at the seaside, a car trip across the country and a brief, enforced season at summer camp. “”In some ways I was always a psychiatrist,”” Viscott writes in retrospect, and if he is not crediting himself with an awareness gained in later years, he was more sensitive and alert than one would expect of even the bright and active boy he was — he found “”the beautiful”” in stones, art museums and symphonies, started people-watching on the Boston subways and felt a special affinity for the friendless and slightly strange. Viscott, a good writer with simple strokes, recreates a mundane world that lives.