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A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author. Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen's career soared in the early 1980s when Goddesses in Everywoman was published. Thousands of women readers became fascinated with identifying their own inner goddesses and using these archetypes to guide themselves to greater self-esteem, creativity, and happiness. Bolen's radical idea was that just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they were also unconscious of powerful archetypal forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among them. Bolen believes that an understanding of these inner patterns and their interrelationships offers reassuring, true-to-life alternatives that take women far beyond such restrictive dichotomies as masculine/feminine, mother/lover, careerist/housewife. And she demonstrates in this book how understanding them can provide the key to self-knowledge and wholeness. Dr. Bolen introduced these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women could identify, from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite, and explains how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become a better "heroine" in one's own life story.
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About Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean
Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst,
and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of the books
The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to
Avalon, The Millionth Circle, and
many others. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric
Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of
California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for
Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of
the Institute for Health and Healing’s Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul
of Healing Award. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. She has been in three acclaimed documentaries, including the Academy
Award–winning antinuclear proliferation film Women—for America, for the World.