Women Who Run with the Wolves [B1063]

1992 HCDJ in nice condition. "Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become overdomesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped."

In her now-classic book that spent 144 weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list, and is translated into 35 languages, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archaeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconscious. Dr. Estés uses her families' ethnic tales, washed and rinsed in the blood of wars and survival, multicultural myths, her own lyric writing of those fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from her life witness, and also research ongoing for twenty years to help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., is an internationally known poet, post-trauma recovery specialist, senior training psychoanalyst [Jungian], and cantadora [keeper of the old stories] in her mestizo Latina tradition. Her doctorate is in ethno-clinical psychology / indigenous history from The Union Institute. She is an award-winning author of both performance art and spoken word.

From recent mixed Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Fantastic. Wow. I took my time with this book, 4 months to be exact, and my goodness it was worth it!"; "I enjoyed the analyses. It did get to a point where a lot of it went way over my head (a little woo woo for my liking at times). I did like the general concept of the book."; "Not just a book - a remembering. Every woman who forgot her howl should read this. It shaped the soul of my memoir."; "Many of my friends that I've met on my spiritual path read this book years ago. It was like a right of passage. I finally read it and at times it really dragged and felt repetitive. I'm really glad I read it though. I feel validated, empowered and inspired."