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Amir Levine, M.D. is a psychiatrist and neuro-scientist based in New York City. He is affiliated with Columbia University-New York Presbyterian Hospital. Amir collaborated with Rachel S.F. Heller, M.A. to write the book Attached - The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it can Help You Find and Keep Love. Hailed by John Gray as "A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship," Attached has been widely praised (by both doctors and lay-people) as one of "the best dating-relationship books" ever written.

¨Cinderella’s prince passionately turned his kingdom upside down simply to find her perfectly shaped foot, and they lived happily ever after. This book is for the rest of us. In Attached, Levine and Heller distill years of attachment theory on the nature of human relationships into a practical, highly readable guide, allowing its users to prevent or untangle doomed relationships and to predict and enhance those that will wear well and fit for a lifetime.¨ - John B. Herman, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and associate chief of psychiatry and distinguished scholar of medical psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Early Life As a child in Israel and Canada, Amir was fascinated with biology and the brain. His mother, a popular science editor who valued creativity and self-motivation, gave Amir a lot of freedom and encouragement to study what interested him. During high school he wrote his first large-scale work about birds of prey in the Bible and in ancient Assyria and Babylon. His thesis examined the evolution of symbolism from a culture of multiple deities to one of monotheism. After high school, Amir served as a press liaison in the Israeli army and worked with renowned journalists including Thomas Friedman, Glenn Frankel and Ted Koppel. His service as press liaison earned Amir a citation of excellence from the Israeli army.

After his compulsory army service, Amir chose to combine his passion for working with people and his love of science by enrolling in medical school at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During medical school, he organized student meetings with Dr. Eiferman, a psychoanalyst, to discuss how doctors can preserve their sensitivity to the hospitalized patients’ needs while negotiating a complex hospital hierarchy. He was awarded the faculty prize for his graduation thesis, ¨Human Sexuality Viewed from the Perspective of Childhood Gender Nonconformity,” which was later adapted for a university seminar.

Career

Amirs interest in human behavior led him to