The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You - Hardcover

by Elaine N. Aron (Author)

The 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION of the original ground-breaking book on high sensitivity with over 500,000 copies sold.

ARE YOU A HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON?

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you noted for your empathy? Your conscientiousness? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and Dr. Elaine Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person is the life-changing guide you'll want in your toolbox.

Over twenty percent of people have this amazing, innate trait. Maybe you are one of them. A similar percentage is found in over 100 species, because high sensitivity is a survival strategy. It is also a way of life for HSPs.

In this 25th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, Dr. Elaine Aron, a research and clinical psychologist as well as an HSP herself, helps you grasp the reality of your wonderful trait, understand your past in the light of it, and make the most of it in your future. Drawing on her many years of study and face-to-face time spent with thousands of HSPs, she explains the changes you will need to make in order to lead a fuller, richer life.

Along with a new Author's Note, the latest scientific research, and a fresh discussion of anti-depressants, this edition of The Highly Sensitive Person is more essential than ever for creating the sense of self-worth and empowerment every HSP deserves and our planet needs.

"Elaine Aron has not only validated and scientifically corroborated high sensitivity as a trait--she has given a level of empowerment and understanding to a large group of the planet's population. I thank Dr. Aron every day for her having brought this awareness to the world."
--Alanis Morissette, artist, activist, teacher

Author Biography

ELAINE N. ARON, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist and the internationally bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, the groundbreaking, life-changing guide that has been in print for nearly thirty years and translated into 38 languages. She is also the author of Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens, The Highly Sensitive Parent, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, The Highly Sensitive Child, and Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. She earned her M.A. in clinical psychology from York University in Toronto, her Ph.D. in clinical depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. Credited for first recognizing high sensitivity as an innate trait and pioneering the study of HSPs since 1990, she established the Foundation for the Study of Highly Sensitive Persons and has published numerous scientific articles on sensitivity in the leading journals in her field. She and her husband, Dr. Arthur Aron, are also considered two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love and close relationships. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and can be found online at hsperson.com.