Marion Woodman

Marion Woodman
Born (1928-08-15) August 15, 1928
London, Ontario, Canada[1]
Occupation Nonfiction writer
Nationality Canadian
Subject Psychology, eating disorders, women's issues, sexuality
Website
www.mwoodmanfoundation.org

Marion Woodman (born August 15, 1928[1]) is a Canadian mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She is a Jungian analyst trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. She is one of the most widely read authors on feminine psychology, focusing on psyche and soma. She is also an international lecturer and poet. Her collection of audio and visual lectures, correspondence, and manuscripts are housed at the Pacifica Graduate Institute OPUS Archives and Research Center, in Santa Barbara, California. Among her collaborations with other authors she has written with Thomas Moore, Jill Mellick and Robert Bly. Her brothers are the late Canadian actor Bruce Boa and Jungian analyst Fraser Boa.

Biography

Her husband Ross Woodman was Professor-Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of The Apocalyptic Vision in the Poetry of Shelley, and Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism, both published by the University of Toronto Press. Ross Woodman died at their home in London Ontario, on 20 March 2014.

On November 7, 1993, Marion was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She recorded the subsequent two years of cancer treatment in a journal, which was later published as Bone: Dying into Life. She was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit Magazine in 2012 as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People [2]

Notable books

References

  1. 1 2 "Birth data for Marion Woodman". Retrieved 2007-04-15.
  2. ↑ http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012
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