A National best-seller in Hardcover, this book identifies and defines a new personality type, and shows readers how to overcome its limitations and maximize its strengths.

1. The facts about being highly sensitive: A (wrong) sense of being flawed.

2. Digging deeper: Understanding your trait for all that it is.

3. General health and lifestyle of Hsps: Loving and learning from your infant/body self.

4. Reframing your childhood and adolescence: Learning to parent yourself.

5. Social relationships: The slide into shy.

6. Thriving at work: Follow your bliss and let your light shine through.

7. Close relationships: The challenge of sensitive love.

8. Healing the deeper wounds: A different process for Hsps.

9. Medics, medications, and Hsps: Shall I listen to Prozac or talk temperament with my doctor?

10. Soul and spirit: Where true treasure lies. Tips for health-care professionals working with highly sensitive people. Tips for teachers working with highly sensitive students. Tips for employers of highly sensitive people.

Elaine N. Aron. Originally Published: New York: Carol Pub., 1996. Includes Bibliographical References and Index.