Albert J. Levis

Who is Albert J. Levis?

Albert J. Levis is a psychiatrist who is 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.

Levis was born in 1937 to a Romaniote Jewish family in Athens, Greece. After surviving the Holocaust in hiding, Levis continued his studies at Athens College and then proceeded to the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne for medical training. He completed his psychiatric residency at Yale, before starting an independent clinical research and training center, The Center for the Study of Normative Behavior in Hamden, Connecticut.

Levis is best known for his Formal Theory, an integrative approach to behavioral analysis and personality assessment. The Formal Theory seeks to qualify the physical properties of behavior through applying principles of physics to the study of emotional energetic transformation. Levis has published several volumes on this research, including Conflict Analysis: The Formal Theory of Behavior and Conflict Analysis Training.