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Steven
Levenkron is a well known psychotherapist in New York City and the
author of eight books, both fiction and non-fiction, published from 1978
to 2000 by Warner Books, Scribner and W. W. Norton. His work is widely
acclaimed as original and groundbreaking in both the theoretical
conception and clinical treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Self-Mutilation,
and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Levenkron’s theoretical analysis of
these disorders is explained and illustrated in five non-fiction books:
Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa, 1982
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, 1991
Cutting, Understanding & Overcoming Self-Mutilation, 1998
Anatomy of Anorexia, 2000
Stolen
Tomorrows, 2007
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His
clinical work with patients, began in 1970, is based on the Nurturant –
Authoritative approach that he developed as a direct result of treating
the victims of these endangering disorders. In his private practice he
has assisted many young people in their recovery from these serious
disorders, helping them back to healthy productive lives.
Since the publication of his first book on anorexia,
The Best Little
Girl in the World, he has been invited to speak at lectures, and appear
on hundreds of television and radio shows. His books have been
translated into nine foreign languages and are popular from the United
Kingdom to Japan, Scandinavia, and Europe. Two of the fiction books,
The
Best Little Girl in the World and
The Luckiest Girl in the World, were
produced as Movies for Television.
As a lecturer, Steven Levenkron has introduced his ideas to both popular
and professional audiences, and he has offered his theories and guidance
at wide-ranging venues from schools and social work agencies to Teaching
Hospitals, including Harvard Medical School.
He often lectures locally, in the New York and tri-state area, as well
as accepting invitations to join National panels on Self-Harm or Eating
Disorders from Texas to New England. Therapists working with these
patients sometimes contact Levenkron for professional supervision on an
individual basis. Together with his wife and co-therapist, Abby
Levenkron, he continues to see patients in his New York office. |
