Women Who Run Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large octavo in black DJ, xiii, 520 pages, 25 cm. "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 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, Ph. D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the bins of the female unconscious. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype." "Dr. Estes collects the bones of many stories, looking for the archetypal motifs that set a woman's inner life into motion. "La Loba" teaches about the transformative function of the psyche. In "Bluebeard", we learn what to do with wounds that will not heal; in "Skeleton Woman", we glimpse the mystical power of relationship and how dead feelings can be revived; "Vasalisa the Wise" brings our lost womanly instincts to the surface again; "The Handless Maiden" recovers the Wild Woman initiation rites; and "The Little Match Girl" warns against the insidious dangers of a life spent in fantasy." "In these and other stories, we focus on the many qualities of Wild Woman. We retrieve, examine, love, and understand her, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine." "In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and lifegiving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul."--Jacket. Contents: Foreword -- Introduction: singing over the bones -- The howl: resurrection of the wild woman -- Stalking the intruder: the beginning initiation -- Nosing out the facts: the retrieval of intuition as initiation -- The mate: union with the other -- Hunting: when the heart is a lonely hunter -- Finding one's pack: belonging as blessing -- Joyous body: the wild flesh -- Self-preservation: identifying leg traps, cages, and poisoned bait -- Homing: returning to oneself -- Clear water: nourishing the creative life -- Heat: retrieving a sacred sexuality -- Marking territory: the boundaries of rage and forgiveness -- Battle scars: membership in the scar clan -- La selva subterr?nea: initiation in the underground forest -- Shadowing: canto hondo, the deep song -- The wolf's eyelash -- Afterword: story as medicine. Wild women -- Folklore. Small damp stain to bottom inner corner area (see photos); else very tight and clean. Housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A very crisp copy. Very good thus in fine jacket. First edition (stated), 49th printing (number line).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Reprint. An excellent, clean and tightly bound book. Gift quality.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1992. May 1992. Ballantine Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0345377443. 521 pages. hardcover. Jacket design Georgia Morrissey. keywords: Psychology Folklore Women. DESCRIPTION - 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 Estés 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. Estés 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. inventory #48310 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FULL NUMBER LINE, NICE COLLECTABLE COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First printing (as indicated by complete number line). Trace foxing on edges, previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 520 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First printing (as indicated by complete number line). Bumped lower corners, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 520 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Maya Angelou writes, This work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be carling, and to be a women. Everyone who can read should read this book. The is the first edition of the revised version published in 1995.