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Psychology Toward a New Psychology of Women This has been an important book in the journey for understanding women’s psychology as different from men’s. The author points to some of the challenges and opportunities with which we continue to struggle. The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism A mind-body therapist shares ways people can grow spiritually from personal crises. There is much wisdom from this fascinating woman who shares her own experience candidly. A Woman’s Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle The author takes us from birth to 84 and beyond with the issues, needs and opportunities women uniquely face at these times. It is readable, insightful and empowering. Coming Home: A Handbook for Exploring the Sanctuary Within Knowing Woman: A Feminine Psychology The Circle of Life: Thirteen Archetypes for Every Woman Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche This is a basic book for anyone who wishes to explore the relationship between depth psychology and religion. It is full of wonderful insight for the Christian. Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking about Human Interactions In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development This book argues that most theories have been based on men, which leaves out women’s experiences, making women appear defective or less moral. The author discovered through her own research that women make decisions differently from men, not less morally. The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Sacred Psychology Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Dynamic Techniques for turning fear, indecision and anger into power, action and love The author takes the reader through obstacles that keep us from moving ahead with our hopes and dreams and provides ways to help us move on to a fuller life. It is a book of instant courage and insight. Femininity Lost and Regained. Women, Sex, and Addiction: A Search for Love and Power This is a good book on how sex is all too often a commodity in our culture. She provides ways that women “can learn to experience their sexuality as a source of love and positive power and sex as an expression that honors the soul as well as the body.” Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships The author shows women how to turn anger into a constructive force in our lives. It is very helpful for understanding our personal relationships and what we might do to make them better. The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-telling in Women's Lives “From sexual faking to family secrets, the author reveals how the struggle toward truth-telling is at the center of our deepest longings for intimacy, authenticity, and self-regard.” The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships The author is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who is widely respected for her work on the psychology of women and relationships. She provides steps for strengthening good relationships and healing difficult ones. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence Queen Maeve and Her Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstasy, Addiction, and Healing Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women Every woman should know the story of Inanna. It lives somewhere inside us all. The story is “about woman’s freedom and the need for an inner, female authority in a masculine society.” Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes for Women Over Fifty: Becoming a Juicy Crone The author names the exciting new potential and energies that awaken in a woman’s consciousness on the other side of fifty. Once recognized, they can help a woman feel empowered and wise. Goddesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women The author is a Jungian psychiatrist who uses Greek goddesses as archetypes for contemporary women. This is a useful book for understanding our psychological strengths and weaknesses and affirming who we are. Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice and Mind Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype This is a landmark book for every woman who wants to understand herself more fully and participate in her deepest energies. With the use of myth, fairy tales, family stories and insight, the author has gifted women most profoundly. Women’s Reality: An Emerging Femal System in the White Male Society This is an early book on redefining male and female relationships. Her work on redefining time, relationships, power, community, etc., is still helpful. At the end of the book she has a section on “The Importance of Becoming Theologically Aware.” On the Way to the Wedding: Transforming the Love Relationship Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem This women’s rights advocate and founder of Ms. Magazine is our sister from the Jewish faith. She writes from her inner strength to help other women tap into their own. In Her Own Time: Women and Development Issues in Pastoral Care This book of essays by leading women pastoral theologians illuminates the psychological and theological developmental needs of girls and women at various stages of the life cycle. Christian Life Patterns: The Psychological Challenges and Religious Invitiations of Adult Life Women’s Uncommon Prayers: Our Lives Revealed, Nurtured, Celebrated Hundreds of prayers written by women of the Episcopal Church for all women

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