Her post-doctoral diploma certifying her as a psychoanalyst, is from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Psychoanalysts by charter of Zurich Switzerland. She received her doctorate from The Union Graduate School in ethno-clinical psychology, the study of groups with emphasis on indigenous history. She graduated from Red Rocks Community College and from Loretto Heights College with her B.A. Later, as a divorced welfare mother, she strove to go to college with a baby on her back while holding minimum wage jobs. Estés was the first of her family to graduate from grade school and high school. As a child, her house was filled with refugees rescued from slave labor and deportee camps during WWII. Translated into 42 foreign languages, this work has been hailed by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Wilma Mankiller and others, as a classic, a seminal work on the root nature of women.īorn in the dirtiest steel mill town in the USA, Gary Indiana, and of Mexican/ Native American heritage, Estés was adopted as an older child by immigrant Hungarians who were hard workers but could not read or write, or did so haltingly. Her books include Women Who Run with the Wolves, a manifesto of family tales and their psychological applications to the inner soul and creative lives of women. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, mestiza Chicana, is an award-winning poet, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma recovery specialist, and cantadora (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition).
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