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William Allen is a first-time author with a writer’s heart and researcher’s mind. After getting a degree in Psychology with an eye on doing psychology research, he recalibrated for a career in Information Technology. He found himself in a thirty-year career as an Information Technology manager at Wells Fargo who enjoyed managing highly intelligent, often difficult staff, many of whom were highly sensitive.. He retired early from his corporate job to found his Hypno-coaching and neurofeedback brain training business, BrainPilots, in Bend, Oregon. While in Bend, he co-organized the area’s first Introvert/Highly Sensitive Person discussion group. In late 2016, he began his blog, The Sensitive Man, about his experiences, as a highly sensitive man. The blog became the genesis of his book, Confessions of a Sensitive Man. He feels that HSP males need to take their keen insights and intuition and make them public. He would like to shed more light on highly sensitive males and the much-needed role they need to take in our society.
Allen grew up in the Southern United States as a highly sensitive male. He was presented with stark contrasts between his sensitivity and the prevailing ideas of the time on masculinity. He was forced to navigate between being an HSP and a traditional male without a roadmap or even a definition of what high sensitivity entailed. He believes he is uniquely qualified to write this book because it is written from the viewpoint of a newly enlightened layman, steadied in the knowledge of recent research yet still appreciative of how new the study of this personality trait is and still needs to be further studied. He has been researching the topic for twenty years since he first read Elaine Aron’s book, The Highly Sensitive Person. The research has been amplified since the inception of the blog and the book.
Not only is Allen an HSP, but the son of HSP parents, father of HSP children and grandfather of HSP grandchildren. He feels that there is a need for a different take on sensitivity in men framed in a greater cultural and societal context. Because Allen is not a psychologist or psychology researcher, he is less constrained by convention in pushing new ideas and topics in HSP thinking. This book is a step in that direction. There is a great need to teach HSM men and especially boys to embrace their highly sensing natures. There are just a few real experts in this area of high sensitivity in males, but as Susan Cain did with her book on introverts, Allen would like to shed more light on highly sensitive males and the much-needed role they need to take in our society.
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