Jean Shinoda Bolen

She is the author of thirteen books in over one hundred foreign editions. She was an NGO delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (2002-2018).

Jean Shinoda Bolen studied at University of California, Los Angeles, Pomona College and University of California, Berkeley. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is analytical psychology, psychiatry and psychology. Carl Jung is recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

Her mother, Megumi Yamaguchi, and aunt, Fumiko Yamaguchi, were both physicians, as were two uncles and her maternal grandfather. Her father, Joseph Shinoda, headed the San Lorenzo Nursery Company and was one of the founders of Keiro Nursing Home and Retirement Center. Following a BA degree in 1958, Bolen obtained her MD in 1962 at UCSF Medical Center. She specialised in psychiatry. She rose to be a clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. In the 1970s, she trained in analytical psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and served on its committees during the 1980s. She is a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and a member of International Transpersonal Association. She is a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including at the C. G. Jung Institute, Zürich.

Bolen has written several books on the archetypal psychology of women and men in the development of spirituality, and is one of the women featured in the 1986 film Women – for America, for the World (Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) and 1989 National Film Board of Canada documentary Goddess Remembered. Bolen also co-founded (with former husband James Bolen) Psychic magazine in 1969 (renamed New Realities in 1977) covering parapsychology and mind-body-spiritual subjects. Bolen was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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The following is established of origins and background. Recorded at birth as Jean Shinoda. It is also recorded that jean Shinoda Bolen was born in 1936 at Los Angeles.