Hi everyone,

some years ago i stepped over a book called "women who run with wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes.
I read it half and took it aside because obviously i wasn't ready for it.
I own it now and it is a great help in many situations.
Does anyone of you know the book?

yours bee

"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 the 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

from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Pinkola_Est%C3%A9s )

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. (born 27 January 1945) is an American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in a now nearly vanished oral and ethnic tradition. She grew up in a rural village, population 600, near the Great Lakes. Of Mexican mestiza and Magyar heritages, she comes from immigrant and refugee families who could not read or write, or who did so haltingly. Similar to William Carlos Williams and other poets who worked in the health professions, Estés is a certified psychoanalyst who has practiced clinically for 37 years. Her doctorate, from the Union Institute & University, is in ethno-clinical psychology, the study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. She often speaks as "distinguished visiting scholar" and "diversity scholar" at universities. She is the author of many books on the life of the soul, and her work is published in 32 languages. Her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 145 weeks.

She is controversial for proposing that both assimilation and holding to ethnic traditions are the ways to contribute to creative culture and to a soul-based civility. She successfully helped to petition the Library of Congress, as well as worldwide psychoanalytic institutes, to rename their studies and categorizations formerly called, among other things, "psychology of the primitives," to respectful and descriptive names, according to ethnic group, religion, culture, etc.....

This is one of my favorites. I have been reading and re-reading this over several years now. The book is about female archetypes and south american tradition of story telling. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes is an authority on this subject.

Jyotishi

I kept seeing this book every where i went ,so i bought it and stayed up all night reading it. It answered a lot of questions for me. I was moving out of state and a woman came to buy something from me .she saw the book and commented on it so I gifted it to her.