Jean Shinoda Bolen

Jean Shinoda Bolen is an American psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and author. She is of Japanese descent. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, she is an emeritus clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF Medical Center 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 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (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 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 and a member of International Transpersonal Association. She is a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich.
Writing career
Bolen has written several books on the archetypal psychology 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 National Film Board of Canada documentary Goddess Remembered. Bolen also co-founded (with former husband James Bolen) Psychic magazine in 1969 (renamed New Realities in 1977) covering parapsychology and mind-body-spiritual subjects.
Ken Wilber, 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 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Books
The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self, (1979, 1982) ed.,
Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women (1984)
Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves, (1989)
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)
Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning, (1996)
The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World, (1999)
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)
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)
Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, (2014)
References
External links
Faculty profile - Omega Institute
Moments of Truth Jean Shinoda Bolen interviewed on Humankind Public Radio
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