Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.
Life and Career
Estés
is a certified senior Jungian analyst. She earned her doctorate, from the Union
Institute & University [1981], in ethno-clinical psychology on the
study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. She
is the author of many books on the journey of the soul. Beginning in 1992 and
onward, her work has been published in 37 languages. Her book Women Who
Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of The Wild Woman Archetype was
on the New York Times' best seller list for 145 weeks, as well
as other best seller lists, including USA Today, Publishers
Weekly, and Library Journal.
Estés
began her work in the 1960s at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans
Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois. There she worked with
World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War soldiers who were living
with quadraplegia, incapacitated by loss of arms and legs. She has worked
at other facilities caring for severely injured children as well as
shell-shocked war veterans and their families. Her teaching of writing,
storytelling and traditional medicine practices continued in prisons, beginning
in the early 1970s at the Men's Penitentiary in Colorado; the Federal
Women's Prison at Dublin, California, the Montview Facility for Youth in
Colorado, and other institutions.
Estés
served as a board member of the Maya Angelou Minority Health Foundation (now
called Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity) at Wake Forest School of
Medicine. Estés served as appointee by Colorado governors Romer and Owens to
the Colorado State Grievance Board of the Department of Regulatory
Agencies (D.O.R.A.) from 1993 to 2006. She was elected as chair and for
thirteen years worked with the state of Colorado Attorney General's lawyers, as
well as a board of legal experts and helping professionals, to focus on public
safety regarding mental health practitioners. She has been an advisory board
member for the National Writers Union, New York; and an advisory board
member of the National Coalition Against Censorship, New York. She is an
advisor to El Museo de las Americas, Denver, Colorado, and a contributing
editor and storyteller-in-residence for The Bloomsbury Review.
Estés
debuted in spoken word performance at Carnegie Hall, New York (2000),
along with Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Together the
author-poets wrote lyrical song-poems for a libretto of woman.life.song..
Estés
is managing editor for TheModeratevoice.com. She has written for the Huffington
Post, the Washington Post, Publishers' Weekly and The
Denver Post. Estés' Guadalupe Foundation has funded literacy projects
Estés
was a recipient of the Keeper of the Lore Award, a Gradiva Award (from
the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis) and Catholic
Press Association, the Book of the Year Honor Award, American Booksellers
Association, and Colorado Authors League Award. She received the Las Primeras
Award, "The First of Her Kind", from the Mexican American Women's
Foundation, Washington D.C. She is a 2006 inductee into the Colorado Women's
Hall of Fame which recognizes women who are of international influence.
Estés is the recipient of the President's Medal for Social Justice.
Books
- Untie the
Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul (Sounds
True Books, USA, 2011)
- Women Who
Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (Ballantine,
1992/ 1995/1997, New York, USA)
- The
Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About that Which Can Never Die (Harper,
1996, USA)
- The Gift of
Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough (Ballantine, 1993,
USA)
- Tales of
the Brothers Grimm; 50-page introduction by Estés (BMOC/QPB
special edition, USA)
- Hero With A
Thousand Faces, Joseph
Campbell; 50-page introduction by Estés (Princeton University Press, 100th
anniversary edition 2004, USA)
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