Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780345377449)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - More than 2.7 million copies sold! - "A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women."--The Washington Post Book World

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Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.

In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est駸 unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.

Dr. Est駸 has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Author: Clarissa Pinkola Est駸
ISBN-10: 0345377443
ISBN-13: 9780345377449
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 06/16/1992
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.56w x 1.61d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/11/1992