US / Joyce Brothers TV Psychologist Joyce Brothers Dead at 85 Pioneer of the television advice show By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted May 13, 2013 5:37 PM CDT Copied FILE - In this 2004 file photo, psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, left, is interviewed at a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality Joyce Brothers has died. She was 85. Longtime publicist Sanford Brokaw says Brothers died today in New York City. She was a pioneer of the television advice show. Her celebrity took off after she entered a television quiz show called The $64,000 Question. She became the only woman to ever win the show's top prize. (More Joyce Brothers stories.) Report an error