David Viscott was an American psychiatrist, author, and media personality who founded the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California.

In 1980 Viscott began presenting his own full-time show on talk radio, and was notably one of the first psychiatrists to do so. 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.

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.

In the television show The Simpsons, the character Dr. Marvin Monroe's voice was based on Viscott. The character's retirement was marked by the broadcast of a Dr. Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital over Lou's walkie-talkie in "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)". Since then, several references to Monroe being dead have been made: a glimpse of his gravestone in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", a Dr. Marvin Monroe Memorial Gymnasium seen in "Bye Bye Nerdie".

Notable books by Viscott

• The Making of a Psychiatrist See
• The Viscott Method
• Risking
• I Love You, Let's Work It Out
• The Language of Feelings
• Emotional Resilience
• Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times
• Emotionally Free
• How to Live with Another Person
• Feel Free
• Winning
• Taking Care of Business
• What Every Kid Should Know
• Labyrinth of Silence