Archival Overview
French neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and physician whose international bestsellers Healing Without Freud or Prozac and Anticancer pioneered integrative medicine and lifestyle oncology.
Biographical Record
David Servan-Schreiber was the son of prominent French journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. He studied medicine in Canada and earned a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University, co-founding the Center for Complementary Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
Diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at age 31, he combined conventional surgery and radiotherapy with anti-inflammatory nutrition, exercise, meditation, and emotional healing. His 2007 book 'Anticancer: A New Way of Life' was translated into more than forty languages and sold millions of copies worldwide.
Key Life Milestones
Healing Without Freud or Prozac
Published his breakthrough book advocating EMDR, cardiac coherence, and omega-3s for emotional well-being.
Anticancer: A New Way of Life
Authored the global publishing phenomenon combining scientific clinical data with lifestyle strategies to fight cancer.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialVeauville-lès-Baons, France