Marion Woodman

Woodman was born on August 15, 1928, in London, Ontario,{{cite web |url=http://www.astrotheme.fr/en/celestar/portrait.php?info=1&clef=NXce2g4227c2|title= Birth data for Marion Woodman|accessdate=2007-04-15 }} the eldest of three children of Ila (née Phinn) and Andrew Boa, a clergyman.{{cite news |last1=Carey |first1=Benedict |title=Marion Woodman, Explorer of the Feminine Mind, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/obituaries/marion-woodman-explorer-of-the-feminine-mind-dies-at-89.html |work=The New York Times |date=19 July 2018}} She completed a degree in English literature at the University of Western Ontario.Thomas Kirsch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sEQCuLDBOKEC&pg=PA114 The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective]. Psychology Press; 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-415-15860-2}}. p. 114.{{cite news |last1=Carey |first1=Benedict |title=Marion Woodman, Explorer of the Feminine Mind, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/obituaries/marion-woodman-explorer-of-the-feminine-mind-dies-at-89.html |work=The New York Times |date=19 July 2018}} Later in life she studied psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland.

Woodman taught high school English for more than twenty years. Suffering from anorexia, she took a sabbatical with her husband a college professor, and traveled first to India and then to England, where she became interested in the theories of Carl Jung. She entered analysis with Jung's British colleague, E. A. Bennet. She subsequently enrolled in the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, and trained as an analyst.Pythia Peay. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_3KZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT166 America on the Couch: Psychological Perspectives on American Politics and Culture]. Lantern Books; 1 April 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-59056-448-6}}. p. 166.[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/pythia-peay/jungian-analysis-eating-d_b_578890.html "Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’"]. Huffington Post, 05/21/2010. By Pythia Peay

In 1982, Woodman wrote a book about analytic psychology, Addiction to Perfection, which was published by the new company, Inner City Books, set up by her colleague Daryl Sharp.

Woodman continued to write on the subject of feminine psychology, focusing on psyche and soma.Donald Kalsched. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap3rAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit]. Taylor & Francis; 25 February 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-317-72544-2}}. p. 109.[https://parabola.org/2016/01/29/marion-woodman-and-the-search-for-the-conscious-feminine-by-patty-de-llosa/ "Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine"], by Patty de Llosa, Parabola, January 29, 2016 She has also lectured internationally. She has written collaboratively with Thomas Moore, Jill Mellick and Robert Bly.

Woodman was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit Magazine in 2012 as the 100th most spiritually influential living person.[http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012 "Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2012"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603182037/http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012 |date=2013-06-03 }}. Watkins Mind Body Spirit, 12 February 2012 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.

Her husband Ross Woodman was Professor 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.

Her younger brothers were the actor Bruce Boa and the Jungian analyst Fraser Boa, both of whom predeceased her.

In November, 1993, Woodman 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 died at her home in London, Ontario, on July 9, 2018, aged 89.

• The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter : Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, 1980 Inner City Books. {{ISBN|0-919123-03-1}}
• Addiction to Perfection : The Still Unravished Bride, 1982 Inner City Books. {{ISBN|0-919123-11-2}}
• The Pregnant Virgin : A Process of Psychological Transformation, 1985 Inner City Books. {{ISBN|0-919123-20-1}}
• The Ravaged Bridegroom : Masculinity in Women, 1990 Inner City Books. {{ISBN|0-919123-42-2}}
• Leaving My Father's House : A Journey to Conscious Femininity (co-authored with Kate Danson, Mary Hamilton, Rita Greer Allen), 1992 Shambhala Publications. {{ISBN|0-87773-896-3}} (PB edition){{cite news |title=LEAVING MY FATHER'S HOUSE: A JOURNEY TO CONSCIOUS FEMININITY |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marion-woodman/leaving-my-fathers-house/ |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=April 1, 1992}}{{cite news |title=Leaving My Father's House |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780877735786 |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=March 30, 1992}}
• Conscious Femininity : Interviews With Marion Woodman, 1993 Inner City Books. {{ISBN|0-919123-59-7}}
• Dancing in the Flames : The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness (co-authored with Elinor Dickson), 1996 Shambhala Publications. {{ISBN|1-57062-313-9}} (PB edition)
• The Maiden King : The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (co-authored with Robert Bly), November 1998, Henry Holt & Co; {{ISBN|0-8050-5777-3}}{{cite news |title=THE MAIDEN KING: THE REUNION OF MASCULINE AND FEMININE |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-bly/the-maiden-king/ |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=September 1, 1998}}{{cite news |title=Maiden King |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780805057775 |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 28, 1998}}
• Bone: Dying Into Life, 2000 Viking Compass. {{ISBN|9780670893744}}{{cite journal |last1=Faflak |first1=Joel |title=Review: Bone and the Case of Marion Woodman |journal=The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal |date=November 2001 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=59–69 |doi=10.1525/jung.1.2001.20.3.59 |jstor=10.1525/jung.1.2001.20.3.59 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jung.1.2001.20.3.59 |access-date=4 May 2022}}{{cite news |title=Bone: Dying Into Life |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780670893744 |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 4, 2000}}
• Sitting by the Well: Bringing the Feminine to Consciousness Through Language, Dreams and Metaphor, 2000 Sounds True (audiobook) {{ISBN|978-1-56455-803-9}}{{cite news |title=SITTING BY THE WELL: Bringing the Feminine to Consciousness Through Language, Dreams and Metaphor |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781564558039 |access-date=4 May 2022 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=June 4, 2001}}
• Coming Home to Myself : Daily Reflections for a Woman's Body and Soul (co-authored with Jill Mellick), April 2001 (paperback ed.) Conari Press. {{ISBN|1-57324-566-6}}
• The Art of Dreaming, by Jill Mellick (with a foreword by Woodman), 2001 Conari Press. {{ISBN|1573245747}}

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• [http://www.mwoodmanfoundation.org/ Marion Woodman Foundation website]
• [http://www.opusarchives.org OPUS Archives and Research Center website]
• [http://www.menweb.org/woodiv.htm MenWeb - Interview with Marion Woodman]
• [http://www.bodysouleurope.org/ BodySoul Europe - The European Marion Woodman-related Communication Network]
• [https://www.amazon.com/Spring-72-Body-Soul-Archetype/dp/1882670299/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11QD1IEN81R9J&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cKG8sv8ZDiJwegRaGmZuY_NtNZjzGA_t2WXldhTaAW2Wj-3mxdEATFX4EGH_5IkD.6F9SxFx2eMb18Gkhy7cduXao9UMHzjfKbZDTwOCiDXg&dib_tag=se&keywords=Body+&+Soul:+Honoring+Marion+Woodman&qid=1722029438&sprefix=body+&+soul+honoring+marion+woodman,aps,156&sr=8-1 Spring Journal #72 Body & Soul: Honoring Marion Woodman]
• [https://www.academia.edu/11834024/Body_and_Soul_Relations_Marion_Woodman_and_C.G._Jung Punita Miranda, Body and Soul Relations: Marion Woodman and C.G. Jung]
• [https://www.academia.edu/80477505/Cellular_resonance_and_the_sacred_feminine_Marion_Woodman_s_story Tina Stromsted, Cellular Resonance and the Sacred Feminine: Marion Woodman's Story]

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