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.

In ogni donna vive una forza potente, ricca di buoni istinti, creatività appassionata e conoscenza senza tempo. Lei è la Donna Selvaggia, che rappresenta la natura istintiva delle donne. Ma è una specie in via di estinzione. Perché, sebbene i doni della natura selvaggia ci appartengano fin dalla nascita, il tentativo della società di “civilizzarci” in ruoli rigidi ha soffocato i messaggi profondi e vivificanti delle nostre anime.

In Women Who Run with the Wolves, la Dott.ssa Clarissa Pinkola Estés svela ricchi miti interculturali, fiabe, racconti popolari e storie, molti dei quali tratti dalle sue tradizioni, per aiutare le donne a riconnettersi con gli attributi feroci, sani e visionari di questa natura istintiva. Attraverso le storie e i commenti di questo straordinario libro, recuperiamo, esaminiamo, amiamo e comprendiamo la Donna Selvaggia, e la consideriamo nella nostra psiche profonda come colei che è sia magia che medicina.

La Dott.ssa Estés ha creato un nuovo lessico per descrivere la psiche femminile. Fertile e vivificante, è una psicologia femminile nel senso più vero del termine, una conoscenza dell’anima.

Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside. People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years.

And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales – to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change . .

. They haven’t rewritten the stories in this book. They haven’t reimagined endings, or reinvented characters.

What they have done is switch all the genders. It might not sound like that much of a change, but you’ll be dazzled by the world this swap creates – and amazed by the new characters you’re about to discover.