An Interview with
By Karen Rider
“As a psychiatrist, I listen with both the linear and the
intuitive mind. The linear mind doesn’t allow you to see into the depths of someone’s soul.”
Judith Orloff, M.D. Intuitive Psychiatrist
Karen: How does an intuitive become a psychiatrist?
Dr. Judith Orloff is the New York Times bestselling author of “Sec- ond Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Show You How To Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom (Three Rivers Press, 2010)” upon which this interview is based. In the book, she describes her journey from intuitive child, with abilities she did not understand, to esteemed intuitive psychiatrist who dared to defy medical taboos. Her work has transformed psychiatry by synthesizing traditional medical practice with her knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality to promote mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical healing. Through her books and lecture circuit, Dr. Orloff teaches how to access intuition and balance intellect with intuition.
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Dr. Orloff: I was born into a family of 25 classically trained physicians, including my parents. My mother, especially, was aware of my gifts but did everything she could to ignore my experiences. I was discouraged from talking about the ‘coincidences’ –events I predicted—because all of it unnerved the people in my life. There were times, which I discuss in detail in Second Sight, when there was a safety net for exploring my experiences but this was outside of the my family life. I got caught up with the hippie culture, and rebelled. When I finally got involved with ex- periments that were testing psychic skills, I felt validation for my own ex- periences. Once I made the decision to pursue medicine, my parents were thrilled but less so about psychiatry. During her medical training, I kept a firm boundary between intuition and
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medicine. I learned to trust the sci- entific method above all else. In the elite field of psychiatry, intuition was unfit for medical decisions affecting patient’s lives.
Karen: What happened to change all that—to set you on the course of intuitive psychiatrist?
Dr. Orloff: I ignored a premonition about one of my patients. Logically, what I sensed didn’t make sense to me. This patient was doing well. Had I chosen to validate that premonition by checking on this person, I could have prevented a suicide attempt. She survived. From that point forward, I immersed myself in un- derstanding the symbiosis between intuition and ethical, responsible medical practice.
Karen: What is different, now, that made the release of www.
amazon.com Second Sight so much more timely and important now?
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