Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Publisher: Yakaboo Publishing
Number of Pages: 464
Cover: Hardcover
Reader Age: Adult
Year of Publication: 2019
The book has been continuously published for 25 years, with more than two million copies sold worldwide. It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 144 weeks.
According to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a psychologist, healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychological traits: sharp perception, a playful spirit, and deep devotion. Wolves and women are kindred by nature — curious, resilient, and strong. While studying wolves, Dr. Estés first crystallized the concept of the Wild Woman archetype. In the book, which became a global bestseller and a New York Times sensation, Estés explores this archetype, deciphers ancient legends and well-known fairy tales, and explains it through examples from her psychoanalytic practice.
Women Who Run With the Wolves began as notes in 1970, and by 1971 Estés had begun working on the text. She completed the book — “a work about love and the resurrection of the women of our world” — over the course of twenty years; during that time, she was rejected for publication 42 times, until the book was finally released by Ballantine/Random House in 1992. In 1995, a revised edition was published with an appendix and a new wolf tale.
