Judith Orloff
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| Judith Orloff, MD | |
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| Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Education | University of Southern California Wadsworth Veteran's Hospital UCLA |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist, writer, motivational speaker |
| Title | Psychiatrist |
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| http://www.drjudithorloff.com | |
Judith Orloff, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist who incorporates psychic intuition and energy medicine into her practice. She also claims to consult with police departments using her psychic abilities.[1] Dr. Orloff is the author of several best-selling books, conducts workshops and speaking engagements, and blogs for several websites.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Orloff grew up in Beverly Hills, where she recalls having her first psychic premonitions, forseeing illnesses, deaths, and earthquakes.[1] Coming from a lineage of 25 physicians in her family (including both her Philadelphia-reared parents),[2] Orloff received her own MD from the University of Southern California in 1979, completed a medical internship at Wadsworth Veteran's Hospital in Los Angeles in 1980 and then a psychiatric residency-training program at UCLA in 1983. She went on to hold staff positions at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, St Johns Medical Center, Brotman Medical Center and the Daniel Freeman Hospital all in the Los Angeles, CA area. "Currently she has a private practice, is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA and an international workshop leader on the interrelationship of medicine, intuition, and spirituality."[3]
[edit] Psychotherapy practice
Orloff's first book Second Sight describes her work as a "clairvoyant psychiatrist" who uses her intuitions to diagnose mental illness.[4] Orloff calls this ability second sight, and coined the term energy psychiatry to describe her novel psychotherapy model.
It addresses the subtle energetic underpinnings of health and behavior and is a combination of conventional medicine, intuition, spirituality and energy. It is a subset of energy medicine, which views our bodies and spirits as manifestations of subtle energies. This is what many indigenous healing traditions revere as a life force and is conspicuous by its absence from Western health care.[5]—Russ Mason, MD, The Energy Psychiatry of Judith Orloff, M.D.
Dr. Orloff has spoken at medical schools, hospitals, the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, and alternative and traditional health forums, such as National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Los Angeles, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center in New York, the UCLA Pediatric Pain Program in Los Angeles and the Maria Shriver's First Lady's Women's Conference also in Los Angeles. Her last book Emotional Freedom is a New York Times bestseller that has been translated into 15 languages. Since 2009, Orloff has become a regular contributor to television psychic John Edward's website John Edward Presents Infinite Quest[6], and has been blogging on The Huffington Post.[7]
[edit] Bibliography
- Second Sight: The Personal Story of a Psychiatrist Clairvoyant. Warner Books. 1996. ISBN 9780446518420.
- In 2001, Second Sight was named in testimony before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging as a prima facie example of "irresponsible unscientific work".[8]
- Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing. Three Rivers Press. 2001. ISBN 9780812930986.
- Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love. Three Rivers Press. 2005. ISBN 9781400082162.
- Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life. Random House. 2009. ISBN 9780307338198.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Nonfiction Review: Second Sight: The Personal Story of a Psychiatrist Clairvoyant by Judith Orloff". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz. June 3, 1996. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-446-51842-0. "[...] she works with police departments by using her psychic abilities to help locate missing persons and identify suspects"
- ^ Pickett, Debra (June 20, 2004). "Sunday Lunch with Judith Orloff". Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^ USA Today, A Better Life Section: "Health, Education, and Science" by Marilyn Elias, Pg. 6D April 12, 2004
- ^ Simons, Justine (November 2, 1996). "The supernatural doesn't end on Halloween". CNN Interactive. Cable News Network. http://www.cnn.com//US/9611/02/superstitious.women/.
- ^ Mason, Russ (February 1, 2005). "The Energy Psychiatry of Judith Orloff, M.D.". Alternative & Complementary Therapies 11 (1). ISSN 1557-9085.
- ^ "Dr. Judith Orloff: Intuitive Psychiatrist". John Edward Presents Infinite Quest. InfiniteQuest. http://www.infinitequest.com/contributor/dr-judith-orloff.
- ^ "Judith Orloff MD". The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-orloff-md.
- ^ Gorski, Timothy N. (1991), "Rebuttal of Timothy N. Gorski, M.D.", Hearing on Swindlers, Hucksters and Snake Oil Salesmen: The Hype and Hope of Marketing Anti-Aging Products to Seniors, September 10, 2001, United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, pp. 586–591, http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Hearing/gorski2.html, [A Written Response to the Statement of the Honorable Dan Burton (R-IN), Chairman, House Committee on Government Reform, by By Timothy N. Gorski, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.; Assistant Clinical Professor, University of North Texas Health Science Center; President, Dallas/Fort Worth Council Against Health Fraud; Board Member, National Council Against Health Fraud; Associate Editor, Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine Lay summary] "Dr. Ornish has enthusiastically endorsed many irresponsible unscientific works by others including Larry Dossey's Healing Words, and psychic Judith Orloff's Second Sight"
