Estés served as appointee by Colorado governors Romer and Owens to the Colorado State Grievance Board of the Department of Regulatory Agencies (D.O.R.A.) from 1993 to 2006. Her teaching of writing, storytelling and traditional medicine practices continued in prisons, beginning in the early 1970s at the Men's Penitentiary in Colorado the Federal Women's Prison at Dublin, California the Montview Facility for Youth in Colorado and other institutions.Įstés served as a board member of the Maya Angelou Minority Health Foundation (now called Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity) at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She has worked at other facilities caring for severely injured children as well as shell-shocked war veterans and their families. There she worked with World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War soldiers who were living with quadraplegia, incapacitated by loss of arms and legs. Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois.
Her book Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of The Wild Woman Archetype was on the New York Times' best seller list for 145 weeks, as well as other best seller lists, including USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.Įstés began her work in the 1960s at the Edward Hines Jr. Beginning in 1992 and onward, her work has been published in 37 languages. She is the author of many books on the journey of the soul. She earned her doctorate, from the Union Institute & University, in ethno-clinical psychology on the study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. She is a certified senior Jungian analyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.Įstés was born in Gary, Indiana, to Emilio Maria Reyés and Cepción Ixtiz, who were from Mexico. Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is an American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst.
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