Amir Levine
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist
Amir Levine is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist on the faculty at Columbia University. He co-wrote Attached with Rachel S. F. Heller.
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About Amir Levine
Amir Levine, M.D., is a psychiatrist and molecular neuroscientist. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University. He grew up in Israel. He did his adult psychiatry residency at Columbia and New York Presbyterian, then went on to specialize in child and adolescent psychiatry. At Columbia he has been a Principal Investigator on research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), working with Nobel laureate Eric Kandel. Out of his work with patients he developed Secure Priming Therapy, an approach that combines attachment science, clinical psychology and neuroscience. Levine wrote Attached with Rachel S. F. Heller, a friend who studied social-organizational psychology and worked in management consulting. Sales of the book exceed 3 million copies, and its translations cover 42 languages. He has also written a follow-up, Secure, published in 2026.