Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning

Author Bio: Jean Shinoda Bolen MD

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of the books The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, The Millionth Circle, and many others. 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. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She has been in three acclaimed documentaries, including the Academy Award–winning antinuclear proliferation film Women—for America, for the World.