Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Jungian psychoanalyst and writer
Clarissa Pinkola Estés is a Mexican-American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She wrote Women Who Run with the Wolves, a New York Times bestseller.
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American Born 1945 in Gary, United States
About Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Clarissa Pinkola Estés was born in 1945 and grew up in a small rural village near the Great Lakes. She is a first-generation American from immigrant and refugee families, with Mexican mestiza, Magyar and Swabian roots. She is a Jungian psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist, and also a poet. She is a cantadora too, a keeper of old stories in the Hispanic tradition. She once served as executive director of the C. G. Jung Center for Research and Education in the United States. Women Who Run with the Wolves appeared in 1992 and spent 145 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It was reissued in a 30th Anniversary Edition in 2022.