David Servan-Schreiber

David Servan-Schreiber is a French-born psychiatrist and neuroscientist who is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounded the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

He co-directed for several years a US National Institutes of Health lab for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and functional neuroimaging, has published more than 90 scientific monographs, and has lectured at leading international academic centres, including Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, and Cambridge.

One of the original seven members of the US board of Doctors Without Borders, he helped provide medical and psychiatric relief in Kurdistan, Guatemala, India (Tibetan refugees), Tajikistan and Kosovo, and continues to develop mental health interventions for victims of crises, while also training therapists in crisis areas.

The son of famous French journalist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (former editor of L'Express, author of The American Challenge), the 46-year-old physician's earlier book The Instinct to Heal sold 1.3 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 28 languages.

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