About the Author

ELAINE N. ARON, PH.D., a clinical and research psychologist, is the internationally best-selling author of The Highly Sensitive Person (translated into thirty languages) and its companion books: The Highly Sensitive Parent, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, The Highly Sensitive Child, The Highly Sensitive Person Workbook, and Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. Credited for first recognizing high sensitivity as an innate trait and pioneering the study of HSPs since 1990, she has established the Foundation for the Study of Highly Sensitive Persons, maintains the website and online resource, www.HSPerson.com, and has published numerous scientific articles on sensitivity in the leading journals in her field. Dr. Aron earned her MA in clinical psychology from York University in Toronto, her Ph.D. in clinical depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and interned at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. In addition, she and her husband, Dr. Arthur Aron, are two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love and close relationships. They are also pioneers in studying both sensitivity and love using functional magnetic resonance imaging. She lives in Marin County, California.