Elaine Aron

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Elaine Nancy Aron (born Spaulding; * 1944 in California ) is an American psychologist and non-fiction author, mainly on the subject of high sensitivity . Her book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You is now considered a standard work in this field.

Life

Elaine Aron graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , and York University in Toronto with a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology . During her internship at the CG Jung Institute in San Francisco , she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara .

In 1996 Aron began to investigate the topic of high sensitivity , for which she is considered a pioneer today, and coined the term Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS).

After an operation in 1997, which upset her emotionally, the doctors prescribed psychological treatment. Because the doctors could not diagnose any pathological syndromes, she was simply described as "highly sensitive". Together with her husband Arthur Aron (* 1945), also a psychologist, ten years later she described the scientifically controversial construct of high sensitivity based on case studies. She still runs a small psychotherapy practice in Mill Valley, California today (as of 2015) and lives with her husband in Tiburon , near San Francisco . Her son Elijah Aron is a screenwriter .

Act

The research results of a 1995 survey published in 1996 in its over a million copies sold book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You (German: The Highly Sensitive How do you recognize your sensitivity, understand and use? ), The today is considered the standard work on this subject. It has been translated into over 70 languages.

Elaine Aron coined the terms highly sensitive and highly sensitive person . The high sensitivity and its forms of expression and consequences for those affected made her her research focus, which accompanied her throughout her life. As their research has shown, high sensitivity is not a disease, but a genetic trait. However, it does not rule out that a small proportion of the highly sensitive people have acquired the high sensitivity in the course of their life through trauma or constant stress. Her thesis that over 20 percent of people are highly sensitive is still controversial today - both in scientific and therapeutic areas.

Writings translated into German

  • with Arthur Aron: The Maharishi Effect. In search of the social and political influence of group meditation . Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-04959-4 (English: The Maharishi effect. A revolution through meditation . Stillpoint, Walpole 1986. Translated by Anthony Gawlikowski).
  • Are you highly sensitive? How to recognize, understand and use your sensitivity . mvg, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-636-06246-8 (English: The Highly Sensitive Person. How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You . Replica, Bridgewater 1996. Translated by Cornelia Preuß).
  • High sensitivity in love. How your sensitivity can enrich the partnership . mvg, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-636-06280-2 (English: The Highly Sensitive Person in Love. Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You . Broadway, New York 2000. Translated by Ulrike Laszlo, Sabine Schilasky).
  • The highly sensitive child. How to respond to your child's particular weaknesses and needs . mvg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-636-06356-4 (English: The highly sensitive child. Helping our children thrive when the world overwhelms them . Broadway, New York 2002. Translated by Ursula Bischoff, Sabine Schilasky).
  • Highly sensitive people in psychotherapy . Junfermann, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-95571-022-4 (English: Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person. Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients . Routledge, New York 2010. Translated by Christa Broermann) .
  • The power of attachment. How love determines our self-worth . mvg, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86882-907-5 (English).

Other works

  • with Arthur Aron: Love and the Expansion of Self . Hemisphere, Washington 1986, ISBN 0-669-10989-4 .
  • with Arthur Aron: The Heart of Social Psychology . Lexington 1986, ISBN 0-669-10989-4 .
  • with Arthur Aron: Statistics for Psychology . Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1994, ISBN 0-13-845637-2 .
  • with Arthur Aron: Statistics For The Behavioral And Social Sciences. A Brief Course . Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River 1997, ISBN 0-13-458902-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nele Langosch: Personality: Are there highly sensitive people? In: www.spektrum.de. Spectrum of Science, June 9, 2016, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Brenda Strohmaier: "High sensitivity is not a disease". Axel Springer, March 1, 2015, accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  3. ^ Yasmin Anwar: Creating love in the lab: The 36 questions that spark intimacy. University of California, February 12, 2015, accessed April 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Aron, Elaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aron, Elaine Nancy (full name); Spaulding, Elaine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH California