Jean Shinoda Bolen is an American psychiatrist,

Jungian analyst Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" ...

and

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. She is of Japanese descent. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the

American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world. It has more than 37,000 members are involv ...

and a Diplomate of the

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, she is an emeritus clinical professor of psychiatry at

Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute The Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI) is a psychiatric teaching hospital, part of the Psychiatry Department at the University of California, San Francisco. It is located at 401 Parnassus Avenue at Hillway Avenue on the Parnassus campus o ...

UCSF Medical Center The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center is a research and teaching hospital in San Francisco, California and is the medical center of the University of California, San Francisco. It is affiliated with the UCSF School of Med ...

and member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She was an NGO delegate to the

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(2002-2018).

Background

Her mother, Megumi Yamaguchi, and aunt, Fumiko Yamaguchi, were both physicians, as were two uncles and her maternal grandfather. Following a BA degree in 1958, Bolen obtained her MD in 1962 at UCSF Medical Center. She specialised in psychiatry. She rose to be a clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. In the 1970s she trained in

analytical psychology Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science ...

at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and served on its committees during the 1980s. She is a member of the

International Association for Analytical Psychology The International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) is the international accrediting and regulatory body for all Jungian societies and groups of analytical psychology practitioners, trainees and affiliates. Analytical psychology was ...

and a member of

International Transpersonal Association The International Transpersonal Association (ITA) is membership organization in the field of Transpersonal studies. History The organization was founded in 1978 by Stanislav Grof, Michael Murphy and Richard PriceBook review: Holotropic breathwor ...

. She is a past board member of the

Ms. Foundation for Women The Ms. Foundation for Women is a non-profit organization for women in the United States, which had a deep commitment to diversity and was founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas. The organizatio ...

. She has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including at the

C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich The C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich (German: C. G. Jung-Institut Zürich) was founded in Küsnacht, Switzerland, in 1948 by the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of Analytical psychology (more commonly called Jungian psychology). Marie-Loui ...

Writing career

Bolen has written several books on the

archetypal psychology Archetypal psychology was initiated as a distinct movement in the early 1970s by James Hillman, a psychologist who trained in analytical psychology and became the first Director of the Jung Institute in Zurich. Hillman reports that archetypal ps ...

of women and men in the development of spirituality, and is one of the women featured in the 1986 film '' Women – for America, for the World'' ( Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)) and 1989

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documentary '' Goddess Remembered''. Bolen also co-founded (with former husband James Bolen) ''Psychic'' magazine in 1969 (renamed ''New Realities'' in 1977) covering

parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near ...

and mind-body-spiritual subjects.

Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience. Life and career Wilbe ...

, in his book ''Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality'' expresses his appreciation for Bolen's two books Goddesses in Everywoman, and Gods in Everyman for its "wonderful presentation of all the 'archetypal' gods and goddesses that are collectively inherited by men and women..." Bolen was a keynote speaker at the 2015

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in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Books

* ''The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self'', (

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...

, 1982) ed., * ''Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women'' (

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

) * ''Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves'', (

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

) * ''The Ring of Power: Symbols and Themes in Wagner's Ring Cycle and in Us'', ( 1992) * ''Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage'' (

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

) * ''Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning'', ( 1996) * ''The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World'', (

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

) * ''Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women over Fifty'', ( 2001) * ''Crones Don't Whine'', ( 2003) * ''Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World'', ( 2005). 2nd ed. (

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

) * ''Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet'', ( 2011) * ''Moving Toward the Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women's Movement'', (

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

) * ''Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman'', (

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

)

References

External links

*
Faculty profile - Omega Institute

Moments of Truth
Jean Shinoda Bolen interviewed on Humankind Public Radio {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolen, Jean Shinoda Living people 1936 births 20th-century American psychologists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American women non-fiction writers American psychiatrists American psychoanalysts American people of Japanese descent American writers of Japanese descent Jungian psychologists University of California, San Francisco faculty Pomona College alumni