Marion Woodman

The symbol of the well holds a crucial significance for us in our search for wholeness. From the terrestrial world it leads down into darkness, to the treasure of pure feminine consciousness. We are each blessed with our own well, our own connection with the Water of Life.

Marion Woodman is one of our most perceptive and expressive teachers and depth-explorers of women’s experience. In Bone, she brings her insights as a Jungian analyst and loving human being—she’s also a truth-teller of a writer—to describe her own journey with uterine cancer.

Marion Woodman is a Canadian “living treasure,” a Jungian analyst and writer from Toronto whose books such as Addiction to Perfection and Leaving My Father’s House have been deeply helpful to many women—and men.

The natural movement of the human psyche toward wholeness and balance is known in Jungian psychology as the process of individuation. Here, the author of Addiction to Perfection and other books shows how this process is happening in the lives of three modern women.

This book is about the struggle to become conscious. It is about overcoming addictions—to food, drugs, work, etc. It is about the wisdom of the body, initiation rituals, dreams. It is about relationship and the search for personal identity. It is a celebration of the feminine, both in men and in women.