Women Who Run With the Wolves (PocketBook)

UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love.An oracle from one who knows" - Alice WalkerWithin woman there lives a powerful force, filed with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of womem. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr. Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many reconnect with the fierce healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature Though the stories and commentaries remarkable book, we ritriveve, examin, love,and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for  describing the females psyche. Fertile and life giving, it is psychology of women in the truest sense anoying of the soul.This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophis tication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of will itself setus right in the world.-Thomas Moore that vitality Author of Care ofthe Soul "I am grateful to WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The work shows the reader how gloriousit is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this bok -Maya Angelou