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.

Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives

BOLEN, JEAN SHINODA

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Understanding the Moments That Touch and Transform Our Lives Who hasn't experienced that eerie coincidence, that sudden, baffling insight, that occasional flash of extrasensory perception that astonishes? Can these events be dismissed as mere chance, or do they have some deeper significance for us? The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic explores the inter-relationship between these meaningful coincidences and our intuitive sense that we are part of some deep oneness with the universe -- a oneness called Tao in Eastern philosophy and synchronicity in Jungian psychology. By relating the concepts of Tao and synchronicity, Dr. Bolen reveals important links between psychology and mysticism, right brain and left, the individual and the external world. The Tao of Psychology provides the key for each individual to interpret the synchronistic events in his or her life and gives fresh insight into the relationships, dreams, and flashes of perception that transform our existence.

The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self

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Shows how synchronicity (the phenomenon of meaningful coincidences) occurs in and enriches ordinary life; provides the key for each individual to interpret the synchronistic events in his or her life; and gives fresh insight into those relationships, dreams, and flashes of perception that touch and transform our lives.

The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and Self

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Using a typology based on the goddesses of Greek mythology, this exploration of the aspects of the female personality examines psychological patterns, character traits, and symptoms which need to be recognized before changes can take place

Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women

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Using a typology based on the goddesses of Greek mythology, this exploration of the aspects of the female personality examines psychological patterns, character traits, and symptoms which need to be recognized before changes can take place

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The author of The Tao of Psychology examines Wagner's mythic, multigenerational family drama of the Ring Cycle operas for archetypal truths and fundamental insights, showing readers how to free themselves from their personal ""Ring Cycle"" of dysfunction. $20,000 ad/promo.

Ring of Power : The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine - A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

Bolen (psychiatry, U. of California) traces the inner patterns or archetypes that shape men's personalities, careers, and personal relationships. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Gods In Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves

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Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage

Acclaimed author and Jungian analyst Bolen reveals the archetypal truths and liberating insights in Wagner's ever-popular Ring Cycle operas. Bolen's interpretations evoke the reader's associations, memories, and emotions to prompt insight and healing for both the psyche and society caught in the "Ring Cycle" of destruction and dysfunction.

Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine : A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

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Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives

The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self

The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and Self

Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women

Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women

Ring of Power : The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine - A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

Gods In Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves

Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage

Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and the Disempowered Feminine : A Jungian Understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle

crossing to avalon, a woman's midlife pilgrimage