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by Peter Benedict

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Transforming the face of psychiatry, Judith Orloff, MD, asserts that we are the keepers of an innate intuitive and empathic intelligence so perceptive that it can help us heal — and prevent illness. Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author and is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty, where she supervises psychiatric residents. She specializes in treating empaths and sensitive people in her Los Angeles based practice and online internationally, and offers Empathy Training Programs to businesses and organizations such as Google Talks, TEDx, and Mass General Brigham Hospital, where she teaches empathic leadership skills to doctors and corporate teams.

Her upcoming children’s book, The Highly Sensitive Rabbit, is about a sensitive rabbit who learns to embrace her gifts of sensitivity through the kindness of loving animals. Her other books include The Genius of Empathy, The Empath’s Survival Guide, Thriving as an Empath. Second SightGuide to Intuitive HealingPositive EnergyEmotional Freedom, and The Power of Surrender

Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured in the New York Times, O Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, the New York Post, and Psychiatrist.com. She has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, PBS, BBC, and NPR. Dr. Orloff is also a blogger on Psychology Today and other platforms. She comes from a lineage of 25 physicians in her family, including both her parents, and received her medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine and completed psychiatric residency at UCLA. www.drjudithorloff.com