A/Prof LeVine brings an international background in traumatic studies to the field of rural and remote mental health. Her first doctorate was in the area of clinical and cultural psychology, with a second doctorate in Asian Studies/Anthropology with Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Career Summary
A/Prof LeVine is leader of the Mental Health team at the University Department of Rural Health. She is a registered clinical psychologist with strong clinical training in anxiety-based disorders in Japan and Southeast Asia. She brings a strong village model to rural health care as a means to build infrastructure within communities and assist the development of "therapeutic" environments in mental health services.
She is a practitioner and scholar of Morita therapy and did her clinical supervision and training in Japan under the late Akihisa Kondo, MD.
Research Interests
A/Prof LeVine's recent fieldwork has been based in Cambodia with a focus on ritual breakdown during the Khmer Rouge, and the aftermath of culture-specific trauma. Her qualitative research includes film ethnography. A book is due out in February 2009 with National University of Singapore Press: Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings and Births under the Khmer Rouge.
Peg’s research, teaching, supervision and clinical work account for the interaction between cultural identity, animism, geography, and traumatic contexts. She is presently involved in mental health policy development that is responsive to context.
Selected Publications:- Le Vine, P., 2003, 'Cultural Implications for Morita Therapy in the Austral Asia Region: Treating Anxiety with Dissociation Related to Cumulative Trauma', Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica, 105 (5), pgs. 567-575
- Le Vine, P., Matsuda, Y., 2003, 'Increasing cultural reliability in assessment: case illustration of a Japanese woman hospitalized in Melbourne, Australia', Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 27 (1), pgs. 221-243
- Le Vine, P., 1998, Morita Therapy and the True Nature of Anxiety-Based Disorders, State University of New York Press, Albany, pgs. 148
- Le Vine, P., 1999, 'A call to assess the quality and complexity of dissociation before advocating treatment', Victorian Psychological Society Newsletter, January, pgs. EJ
- Le Vine, P., 1999, 'Book Review: International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma', Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 30 (4), pgs. 548-550
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