Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. A Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center, Dr. Bolen is an internationally
known teacher who links archetypal and spiritual realms with social, political, and ecological concerns. She has
two children and lives in Mill Valley, California.
Review
"A glorious book. Jean Shinoda Bolen's weaving of myth, science and keen observation makes this an outstanding
contribution to the humanities."
--Rita Mae Brown
Submitted by Publisher, June, 2001
Summary
Just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they may
also be unconscious of powerful forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account
for major differences among women. Psychoanalyst Jean 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 how understanding them
can provide the key to self-knowledge and wholeness. Dr. Bolen introduces these patterns in the guise of seven
archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women will identify. Goddesses in Everywoman shows
readers how to identify their ruling goddesses (from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing
Demeter and the creative Aphrodite), how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the
power of these enduring archetypes to become better "heroines" in their own life stories.
