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Estes is an internationally recognized scholar, award-winning poet, diplomate senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and cantadora (keeper of the old stories) in the Latina tradition. Her doctorate is in intercultural studies and clinical psychology. She has taught and practiced privately for 26 years. With over two million copies in print, her New York Times bestseller Women Who Run With the Wolves has been hailed as a classic and the seminal work on the instinctual nature of women. Other books by Dr. Estés include The Gift of Story, The Faithful Gardener, and The Dangerous Old Woman.
- "An inspiring book, the 'vitamins for the soul' [for] women who are cut off from their intuitive nature." - San Francisco Chronicle
- "Stands out from the pack ... A joy and sparkle in [the] prose ... This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work.... It is a road map of all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves ... is a gift." - Los Angeles Times
"Do not lose heart, we were made for these times..." from Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times
""The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase." from Women Who Run With the Wolves (Ballantine/ Bertelsmann 1992, 1996) (p. 14)
"Some people mistake being loving for being a sap. Quite the contrary, the most loving people are often the most fierce and the most acutely armed for battle... for they care about preserving and protecting poetry, symphonic song, ideas, the elements, creatures, inventions, hopes and dreams, dances and holiness... those goodly endeavors that cannot be allowed to perish from this earth, else humanity itself would perish..." - from The Dangerous Old Woman audiobook
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, (Ballantine 1992/ 1996, USA)
The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough (Ballantine 1993, USA)
The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About that Which Can Never Die (Harper SanFrancisco 1996 USA)
Tales of the Brothers' Grimm; 50 page introduction by Estés (BMOC/QPB special edition USA)
Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell. 50 page introduction by Estés (Princeton University Press, Joseph Campbell 100th anniversary edition 2004, USA)
La danza delle grandi madri: The Dance of the Grand Madri (Sperling & Kupfer/ Frassinelli, 2007, Milano, Italy)
Donne che corrono coi lupi (Sperling & Kupfer/ Frassinelli, 1993, Milano, Italy)
Forte è la Donna: dalla Grande Madre Bennedetta, insegnamenti per i nostri tempi (Sperling & Kupfer/ Frassinelli, May 2011, Milano, Italy)
Audio works
Estés is a spoken word artist in poetry, stories, blessings and psychoanalytic commentary. Her many audio works, published by Sounds True, are available as CDs and mp3s and have been broadcast over numerous National Public Radio and community public radio stations throughout Canada and the United States.
Untie the Strong Woman: To Know and Honor Holy Mother & La Nuestra Señora, Our Lady of Guadalupe (currently in mp3)
The Joyous Body, Myths and Stories of The Dangerous Old Woman and the Consort Body (currently in mp3)
The Power of the Crone: Myths and Stories of The Dangerous Old Woman and Her Special Wisdom, Part Two (2010)
The Dangerous Old Woman: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype, Part One (2010)
Mother Night: Myths, Stories and Teachings for Learning to See in the Dark (2010)
Seeing in the Dark: Myths and Stories to Reclaim the Buried, Knowing Woman (2010)
Warming the Stone Child: Myths & Stories About Abandonment and the Unmothered Child (1997)
The Radiant Coat: Myths & Stories About the Crossing Between Life and Death (1993)
The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity (1993)
In the House of the Riddle Mother: The Most Common Archetypal Motifs in Women's Dreams (1997, 2005)
Theatre of the Imagination (1999, 2005)
How To Love A Woman: Myths and Stories about Intimacy and The Erotic Lives of Women (1996)
Bedtime Stories; For Crossing the Threshold Between Waking and Sleep (2002)
Beginner's Guide to Dream Analysis (2000)
The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough (1993)
The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About that Which Can Never Die (1996)
The Boy Who Married An Eagle: Myths and Stories About Men's Interior Lives (1995)
The Red Shoes: On Torment and the Recovery of Soul Life (1997, 2005)
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories about the Wild Woman Archetype (1989 audio bestseller released before the completed manuscript)
