David Servan-Schreiber

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He co-directed a National Institutes of Health laboratory for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and functional neuro-imaging for several years and has published more than 90 scientific monographs. He's lectured at leading international academic centers, including Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, and Cambridge Universities. One of the original seven members of the United States board of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, he served on the board for 9 years and served as volunteer in Kurdistan, Guatemala, India, Tajikistan, and Kosovo. He continues to develop mental health interventions for victims of crises and to train therapists in crisis areas.?? Servan-Schreiber’s first book The Instinct to Heal – Curing Stress, Anxiety and Depression without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy was an international bestseller and France’s bestselling non-fiction book of the year in 2004, selling over 600,000 copies in the trade edition alone. Rights have since been sold in 28 countries.