Reading List for Jean Shinoda Bolen, September 2005
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Urgent Messsage from Mother: Gather the Women & Grails, Goddesses, Crones and Circles
September 16-17, 2005
Books and Articles by Dr. Bolen
Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning. New York:
Touchstone, 1996.
Crones Don't Whine. Boston: Conari Press, 2003.
Crossing to Avalon. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
Goddesses in Every Woman. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.
Gods in Everyman. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.
Goddesses in Older Women. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
The Millioneth Circle. Berkeley: Conari Pr., 1999.
Ring of Power. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
The Tao of Psychology. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.
Urgent Message from Mother. Boston: Conari Pr., 2005.
"Illness as a Mythic Descent and Turning Point" in Journal of Women & Religion
(18:23- ), 2000.
"Women's Psychology, Goddess Archetypes, and Patriachy..." in Women & Therapy
(17,1-2:71- ), 1995.
"Synchronicity and the Tao..." in ReVision (16, 1: 8- ), 1993.
Additional Recommendations
Belenky, Mary Field, et al. Women's Ways of Knowing. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
Covington, Coline. "In Search of the Heroine" in Journal of Analytical Psychology
(34, 3: 243- ), 1989.
Downing, Christine. The Goddess. New York: Crossroad, 1981.
Downing, Christine. Psyche's Sisters. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
Douglas, Claire. The Woman in the Mirror. Lincoln, Ne: iUniverse, 1990, 2000.
Gimbutas, Marija. The Living Goddesses. Berkeley: University of California, 1999.
Hall, Nor. The Moon and the Virgin. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Harding, M. Esther. The Way of All Women. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.
Harding, M. Esther. Woman's Mysteries. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.
Kerènyi, Karl. Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion. Zurich: Spring, 1978.
Luke, Helen M. Woman Earth and Spirit. New York: Crossroad, 1984.
Neumann, Erich. The Great Mother. Princeton: Princeton University, 1955, 1963.
Newman, Robert D. "The Transformative Quality of the Feminine" in Journal of AnalyticalPsychology (31, 1: 63- ), 1986.
Olsen, Carl, ed. The Book of the Goddess, Past & Present. New York: Crossroad, 1983.
Schaup, Susanne. Sophia. York Beach, Me: Nicolas-Hays, Inc., 1997.
Perera, Sylvia Brinton. Descent to the Goddess. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1981.
Wehr, Demaris S. Jung & Feminism: Liberating Archetypes. Boston: Beacon Pr., 1987.
Whitmont, Edward C. Return of the Goddess. New York: Crossroad Pr., 1982.
Woolger, Jennifer Barker. The Goddess Within. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989.