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Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen


Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author ofThe Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, andLike a Treewith over eighty foreign translations. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association.

She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award," and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation filmWomen-For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board'sGoddess Remembered.

The Millionth Circle Initiative www.millionthcircle.org was inspired by her book and led to her involvement at the UN. She is the initiator and the leading advocate for a UN 5th World Conference on Women www.5wcw.org, which was supported by the Secretary General and the President of the General Assembly on March 8, 2012.

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