She served Columbine High School and its local community for three years after the 1999 massacre there. The protocol was designed for citizens to do post-trauma work recovery work in their own communities after the first responders have left. She served at natural disaster sites, developing a now widely translated “Post-trauma Recovery Protocol”, first translated for 1988 earthquake survivors in Armenia. 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 “locked institutions” throughout the western United States.Įstés also ministers in the fields of childbearing loss, surviving families of murder victims, as well as critical incident work.

She has worked at other facilities caring for severely injured “cast-away” children as well as “shell-shocked” (now called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) war veterans and their families. There she worked with WWI, WWII, Korean and Vietnam War soldiers who were living with quadraplegia, incapacitated by loss of arms and legs. 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.Īs a post-trauma specialist, Estés began her work in the 1960s at the Edward Hines Jr. Beginning in 1992 and onward, her work has been published in 37 languages, most recently Persian, Turkish, and Chinese.

She is the author of many books on the journey of the soul. She often speaks as “distinguished visiting scholar” and “diversity scholar” at universities. Her doctorate, from the Union Institute & University, is in ethno-clinical psychology on the study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. Similar to William Carlos Williams and other poets who worked in the health professions, Estés is a certified senior Jungian analyst who has practiced clinically for over 45 years. In modern jargon heet ik een ‘post-traumaspecialist’.Īboout Clarissa Pinkola Estés: Life and career

Ik ben een Cantadora, zij die heelt met verhalen. Zij leerden me naar de wolven te luisteren en de wilde wijze waarheid te vertellen. Ik stam van verhalenvertellers, immigranten en zwaarverwonden. La que sabe, zij die weet, leeft in mijn botten. Verenigde Staten 1945 – nu schrijver, dichter, psychoanalyticus ‘When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.’

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