Dr. Joyce Brothers Dead at 85

Lynn Benisch (Meredith Lord) and Dr. Joyce Brothers in ONE LIFE
TO LIVE in 1972.

Joyce Brothers, who pioneered the television advice show and was called the mother of media psychology, has died, her daughter said Monday. She was 85.

"She passed away peacefully and in her home ... with her family all around her," Lisa Brothers Arbisser said.

Brothers became a television star as a game show contestant, a sports interviewer, then as a psychologist answering audience questions about relationships and other emotional subjects.