Albert J. Levis
American psychiatrist
Albert J. Levis (born 1937) is a Greek-American psychiatrist and author of the Formal Theory of Behavior. He is also the founder and director of the Museum of the Creative Process in Manchester, Vermont. He along with his late wife, Georgette Wasserstein Levis, is the innkeeper of the Wilburton Inn, also in Manchester.
Biography
Albert Levis was born in 1937 in Athens to a Romaniote Jewish family with deep roots in the Greek history and culture. After surviving the Holocaust in hiding, Levis continued his studies at Athens College where he graduated in 1957 and was awarded the Capps prize for an essay on the history of the Jewish diaspora as cycles of emancipation and justification for persecutions.
He studied medicine in Switzerland at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich, 1958–1963, immigrated to the United States in 1964, married Georgette Wasserstein (sister of Bruce Wasserstein) in 1966 and completed his psychiatric residence at Yale University in 1968. He settled with his family in Hamden, Connecticut, where in 1970 he founded a clinical research and training practice, the Center for the Study of Normative Behavior. There he conducted his research work and writing of books. He retired in 2002 to dedicate his attention to the Wilburton Inn, incorporated as the Art to Science project with the vision of developing a forum for his theoretical position.
Levis installed on the grounds of the inn, several permanent art exhibits identified as the Museum of the Creative Process.
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