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Creativity- The Integrative Paradigm: Albert J Levis, MD at TEDxManchesterVillage

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Albert Levis is a psychiatrist, born in 1937 in Athens, Greece, where he experienced, during his childhood, WWII, the Holocaust, and the Communist Civil War. Intrigued, he spent his professional career pondering on behavior, religions and ideologies. He began his search for meaning at Athens College, studying medicine in Switzerland, at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich; he completed a psychiatric residency at Yale, and launched the Center for the Study of Normative Behavior in Hamden, Connecticut. There he identified what is universal in all stories: their plot. Studying patterns that repeat, he recognized it as a natural scientific conflict resolving mechanism. This order reflected the unconscious as moral and orderly, contradicting Freud's irrational and amoral unconscious. The conflict resolution mechanism became the unit of the social sciences, integrating psychology and morality into the Moral Science, the Science of Conflict Resolution. In 1987 he published: Conflict Analysis, the Formal Theory of Behavior. He also published Conflict Analysis Training including the Conflict Analysis Battery, a personality assessment based on the analysis of creativity for self-discovery and self-help. To promote awareness of this scientific breakthrough he acquired a historic inn, and installed the exhibits of the Museum of the Creative Process. A book on the museum exhibits, Science Stealing the Fire of the Gods and Healing the World, combined with the self-assessment, represents a program of emotional education creativity and power management that may be delivered in the classroom as well as in psychotherapy.

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