Goddess
Archetypes and Sacred Circles: Becoming
Ourselves, Changing Our World
The archetypes within us and women's circles with a spiritual center are deep resources for an authentic, effective, and meaningful life. In this talk, as in her books, Jean inspires us to trust what we know to be true for ourselves and to draw upon support from each other.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, psychiatrist, author of many books including: The Millionth Circle; The Tao of Psychology; Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman; Ring of Power; Crossing to Avalon; and Close to the Bone.
She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, an internationally known lecturer, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, a Fellow and former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and a former Board member of the International Transpersonal Association. 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 attended UCLA and Pomona College prior to
graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1958.
She then entered the University of California School of Medicine in
San Francisco, receiving her M.D. 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. With her former husband, she co-founded Psychic and New Realities magazines, publications about parapsychological, and mind-body-spiritual subjects. She is in the widely acclaimed documentary, "Goddess Remembered," the first of the Canadian Film Board's trilogy.