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Title: The Beauty Prescription

From the show: “So if you are not feeling good you are not going to be looking good. And when you’re not looking good sometimes people try to fix it by running to their dermatologist. And so when we would discuss our patients a lot of times Dr. Debra would say, “You know, it’s really sad. This woman is coming in because her husband has left, or she’s coming in because she’s got chemotherapy and she wants me to fix it with a little Botox or filler, but I don’t really think that’s addressing the issue.”

And at the same time I would have people come in who maybe were depressed, their relationships were falling apart, but they wouldn’t go to that effort to change the outside. And so both approaches were sort of falling short. And we thought by combining our wisdom we could create a book, a guide for women that would really help them maximize their success in this world that we live in now a days, which is a highly visual, highly competitive world where families are fragmented, you don’t have a lot of support. It’s hard to maintain your inner beauty. It’s hard to maintain your outer beauty.”

From http://www.thebeautyprescription.com/ : In our modern world, research shows that beautiful people earn more money, get a better break in the legal system, get more help from strangers, advance farther in their careers and are generally happier. In The Beauty Prescription, Dr. Eva Ritvo, a board-certified psychiatrist and Dr. Debra Luftman, a board-certified dermatologist, pull back the curtains from what is truly the source of lasting beauty: the brain. In this groundbreaking book, these two physicians and best friends share a message of hope for all women: how you feel about yourself and act toward the world around you has as much to do with your beauty as your weight or the quality of your skin. This is the best time in history to bring out qualities the authors call "inner beauty" as well as outer beauty, and the authors will guide their readers along the path.

Dr. Eva Ritvo has an understanding of the importance between self-esteem, outer beauty and overall health. Her quest is to communicate a holistic approach to redefine beauty. She is an Associate Professor and Vice Chairman at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Ritvo completed her residency training at New York Hospital Payne Whitney Clinic/Cornell and received undergraduate and medical degrees from University of California, Los Angeles. She is the lead author of the Concise Guide to Marital and Family Therapy and has written numerous articles and chapters on Couples and Marital Therapy.