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Levy’s numerous theoretical and empirical research studies have been published in scientific journals and presented at professional conferences. His book, Tools of Critical Thinking: Metathoughts for Psychology, garnered widespread acclaim and won the endorsements of some of the nation’s most prominent psychologists, including Elizabeth Loftus, Shelley Taylor, Robert Carson, David Myers, and Anne Peplau, with a foreword by Thomas Szasz.
Levy collaborated with Eric Shiraev (George Mason University) on Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications, which became an internationally best-selling textbook. He is the author of Family Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice, which was the first textbook on the topic to be available to Russian readers. His Levy Optimism-Pessimism Scale (LOPS) has been utilized internationally in a variety of research contexts.
He is also the author of numerous satirical articles, including "The Emperor’s Postmodern Clothes: A Brief Guide to Deconstructing Academically Fashionable Phrases for the Uninitiated", "How to Be a Good Psychotherapy Patient", "Psychometric Infallibility Realized: The One-Size-Fits-All Psychological Profile", "Stinks and Instincts: An Empirical Investigation of Freud’s Excreta Theory" and "A Proposed Category for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM): Pervasive Labeling Disorder".
Levy co-wrote 60 episodes of the daytime television serial Secret Lives, (produced by Dan Enright of Barry & Enright Productions).
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