Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist and the bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, in print for nearly thirty years and translated into 35 languages. Her latest book is Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens:  An Objective Look at Meditation Methods and Enlightenment.

Aron is also the author of The Highly Sensitive Parent, The Highly Sensitive Person Workbook, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, The Highly Sensitive Child, and Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. She is credited with first recognizing high sensitivity as an innate trait and pioneering the study of HSPs since 1990.

Aron obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from Pacific Graduate Institute and trained at the Jung Institute in San Francisco. She is widely published in academic journals on research regarding both sensory processing sensitivity and, along with her husband, Arthur Aron, the scientific study of close relationships.