Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D
A Great Need for the Feminine Principle

Jean Shinoda Bolen speaks eloquently about the advantages of globalization and of power of ordinary women coming together across nations and continents to address some of the fundamental issues affecting millions of people.

"Human beings have always had a reverence for the sacred. It's in our genes. At our highest level, it's a reverence for life…But there's a tension between the institutions of religion and the reason for religion in the first place--which is numinosity."

Biography

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing’s "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award". She is a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the author of numerous books including The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, and Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World.

She has served on numerous boards, including the Council of National Affairs of the APA, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Ms. Foundation for Women, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the International Transpersonal Association, among others. Bolen is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. She founded and co-chaired Psychiatrists for ERA, which was a major influence within psychiatry in the early 1980's, that evolved into the Association for Women in Psychiatry.

Dr. Bolen received her M.D. from the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco in 1962, followed by a rotating internship at Los Angeles County General Hospital and a residency in psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Her analytic training was done at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.

She brings an emphasis on the question for meaning and the need for a spiritual dimension in life to all aspects of her work, while also taking into account the powerful effects of archetypes within us and family and culture upon us. Her books are used as college and university texts in gender studies, women's psychology, mythology, spirituality, east-west philosophy, and psychology courses. She has been an advocate for women, women's issues, and ethics in psychiatry. Additionally, Dr. Bolen has brought her inquisitive mind to psychic studies and mind-body-spiritual subjects.

Resources

www.jeanshinodabolen.com