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Dr. Vivian Diller

2013 Speaker

Vivian Diller, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in New York. Prior to receiving her doctorate, Dr. Diller danced professionally with the Cincinnati Ballet Company and was a Wilhelmina model. For over twenty years, Dr. Diller has researched the psychology of aging in contemporary culture, with a specific interest in women’s experience of beauty as they age. Her book, “Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change,” is now in paperback and translated around the world. She has a column in Huffington Post and Psychology Today and serves as a regular media expert on television (“Today Show,” CNN), on radio and in popular magazines talking about lifestyle issues. She received her Ph.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, interned at St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital and completed Postdoctoral Training in Psychoanalysis at N.Y.U.