HOW TO MAKE WINNING YOUR LIFESTYLE.

By David S. Viscott '59, M.D.New York: Peter H. Wyden, Inc., 1972.246 pp. $6.95.

A winner speaks to losers, real or potential. At 34 Dr. Viscott has already accomplished what most men could not in 74 years. The dust jacket seems to challenge you, bound to lose, to name a person combining Viscottian successes. A realtor who is a specialist for the criminally insane. A writer for Advertising Age who travels incessantly. A clarinetist who teaches at Boston University Medical School. An author of a novel concentrating on frustration (Labyrinth of Silence) who is a happy husband and father. A passionate driver of sport cars who has published a self-help book (Feel Free). The subtitle on the dust jacket of Flow To Make Winning YourLifestyle reads: "A Psychiatrist's Guide to Getting and Keeping the Upper Hand." The book is about gamesmanship with excessively difficult persons facing you, a loser, so complicated that you must be Viscotted to become simplified.

Taxicab drivers are tough, but you can control Loudmouth. "Look at that son-of-a-bitch cut me off. (honking) ... Hey, you bum (honks)!!" How can you, Mr. Caspar Milquetoast, silence him? You could say, "Driver, I would "really appreciate it if you would be quiet. I've got a headache." But you had better not, for the taximan would put you in the same category as his wife. Solution: treat him as if he were your personal chauffeur.

When you bump into a brand new car, don't insult the victim with coarse words welling up from your subconscious because you fear you were at fault. Don't shout at the victim with "You're full of crap. Your car Was dented before. You're just a lousy driver." Solution: Let the cop take over.

Timid about being a great lover? "Sex is nothing more than a game." For upmanship see pg. 216. On pg. 84, you, Mr. Bashful, are told how to succeed at a party with a girl just returned from Denmark. She loves the country because it is "very quaint." You titillate her with innocent enthusiasm, "Sounds charming. Sounds like you had fun." She's turned on, and you are capable of space exploration.

Could be you have little intellectual power with your real estate agent, your children, or your wife, all argumentative, touchy, and hard-driving. Don't worry. "It's not brains that determines success. There are professors on Skid Row." And you are so disorganized that you see no chance of getting squared away. Don't worry. "Chaos Presents opportunities to move ahead which no other situation offers," but you are warned not to "precipitate a crisis to achieve your goals." That would be "very risky."

The book treats marital problems. Sample: At a party, "Ben's been drinking too much and telling off-color stories loudly." Upset, Sandra, his wife, "waits till later in the evening to pull her own little dirty joke on Ben, the old headache-at-bedtime routine." Ben wins, with boudoir theater at its best, and Sandy achieves happiness with her hero.

Hollywood may soon be calling Dr. Viscott and giving him his opportunity to make winning his lifestyle.