Women Who Run with the Wolves: Book Guide, Author and Facts

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 the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconscious. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, v

Quick facts about Women Who Run with the Wolves

• Title: Women Who Run with the Wolves
• Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• First published: 1982
• Genre: archetype (psychology), fairy tales, folklore
• OpenLibrary ID: OL2960639W

Where to read Women Who Run with the Wolves

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.

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