David Servan-Schreiber

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

For several years, he co-directed a US National Institutes of Health lab for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and functional neuroimaging.

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 (for Tibetan refugees), Tajikistan, and Kosovo. He continues to develop mental-health interventions for victims of crises and to train therapists in crisis areas.

The son of French journalist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (former editor of L’Express, and author of The American Challenge), his earlier book The Instinct to Heal sold 1.3 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 28 languages.

Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwiQm5QaTs

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