Dr. Lilac Lev-Ari

Chair of Clinical Psychology MA Program
Dr. Lilac Lev-Ari
ldlevari@ruppin.ac.il

Teaching

  • The basics of psychodynamic therapy
  • The basics of psychodynamic therapy-II
  • Abnormal Psychology - II
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • On the scale and off the charts

Research

  • Eating disorders
  • Obesity
  • Mentalization
  • Attachment
  • CPTSD

Publications

​Lev-Ari, L., Baumgarten-Katz, I., & Zohar, A.H. (2014). Mirror, mirror on the wall: How women learn body dissatisfaction.​ Eating Behaviors, 15(3), 397-402.

Lev-Ari, L., Baumgarten-Katz, I., & Zohar, A.H. (2014). Show me your friends, and I shall tell you who you are: The way attachment influences social comparisons and body dissatisfaction​. European Eating Disorders Review, 22(6), 463-469

Bachner-Melman, R., Lev-Ari, L., Levin, R, & Lichtenberg, P. (2016). Think yourself thin: Concern for Appropriateness mediates the link between hypnotizability and disordered eating​. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 64(2), 225-238.

Gigi, I., Bachner-Melman, R., & Lev-Ari, L. (2016). The association between sexual orientation, susceptibility to social messages and disordered eating in men​. Appetite, 99, 25-33.

Zohar, A. H., Lev Ari, L., & Bachner‐Melman, R. (2016). My Sister Myself: A Controlled Study of the Relationship Between Women with a Lifetime Diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa and Their Sisters. European Eating Disorders Review, 24(6), 466-473.

Zohar, A. H., Lev-Ari, L., Bachner-Melman, R., & Kreitler, S. (2017). The well rounded body image: The Dresdner Körperbildfragebogen DKB-35​. Israel Journal of Psychiatry & Related Sciences, 54(3), 22-27.

Zohar, A. H., Lev-Ari, L., & Bachner-Melman, R. (2017). The EDE-Q in Hebrew: Structural and Convergent/Divergent Validity in a Population Sample. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 54(3), 17-21.

Baumgarten-Katz, I., Lev-Ari, L., & Zohar, A. H. (2018). Ever since I can remember myself: Implications of attachment and perceived maternal feeding practices on women's body dissatisfaction​.  Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 55(1), 10-18.

Zohar, A. H., Lev-Ari, L., & Bachner-Melman, R. (2018). A model for the formation of maternal authority styles starting from attachment and mediated by temperament and character.​ International Journal of Psychology and Behavior Analysis, 4(145), 1-6.

Bachner-Melman, R., Lev-Ari, L., Zohar, A. H., & Lev. S. (2018). Can recovery from an eating disorder be measured? Towards a standardized questionnaire​. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.

Levi-Belz, Y. & Lev-Ari, L. (2019). Is there anybody out there? Attachment style and interpersonal facilitators as protective factors against complicated grief among suicide-loss survivors​. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207(3), 131-136.

Levi-Belz, Y., & Lev-Ari, L. (2019). Attachment styles and posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors: The mediating role of interpersonal factors Crisis:​ The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 40(3), 186–195.

Levi-Belz, Y., & Lev-Ari, L. (2019). “Let's talk about it”: The moderating role of self-disclosure on complicated grief over time among suicide survivors​. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, 3740-3753.

Lev-Ari, L., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2019). Interpersonal Theory dimensions facilitate posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors: An attachment perspective. Death Studies, 43(9), 582-590.

Brenner, I., Bachner-Melman, R., Lev-Ari, L., Levi-Ogolnic, M., Tolmacz, R., & Ben-Amitay, G. (2019). Attachment, sense of entitlement in romantic relationships and sexual revictimization among adult CSA survivors​. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-24. 

Lev-Ari, L., Bachner-Melman, R., Zohar, A. H., Ebstein, R., & Mankuta, D. (2020). Weight gain, feeding and eating in the first year of life of babies of smoking and non-smoking mothers​. Early Human Development, 140.

Lev-Ari, L., Zohar, A. H., & Bachner-Melman, R. (2020). Enjoying your body: The psychometric properties of an English version of the Dresden Body Image Questionnaire​. Australian Journal of Psychology, 72(3),267–275.

Zohar, A. H., Pick, S., Lev-Ari, L., & Bachner-Melman, R. (2020). A Longitudinal Study of Maternal Feeding and Children’s Picky Eating​, Appetite, 154.

Bachner-Melman, R., Lev-Ari, L., Zohar, A. H., & Linketsky, M. (2021). The Eating Disorders Recovery Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and validity​, Eating and weight disorders.

Zohar, A. H., Lev-Ari, L., & Bachner-Melman, R. (2021). Two to tango? The dance of maternal feeding practices and child eating behavior​. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, special issue on eating disorders.

Lev-Ari, L., Bachner-Melman, R., & Zohar, A. H. (2021). Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q-13): Expanding on the short form​, Journal of Eating Disorders.