The Old Woman's Daughter offers men and women alike a way to 
make sense of their lives and find more healing alternatives than 
offered by our present culture.

    In gentle, evocative imagery, Jungian analyst Claire Douglas 
invites readers to reconnect with the ancient tradition of the 
feminine, the "Old Woman," symbolized by her own Celtic 
grandmother. After considering the dangers to individuals and the 
society of the masculine-focused dualities of our own culture, 
Douglas describes an alternative that incorporates the feminine self 
within each of us, man or woman.

    Douglas draws on myth and story, her own experiences, poetry, 
the dreams of some of her patients, and images available from 
Tibetan Buddhism to find archetypes that help us recognize our 
inheritance from the Old Woman. She describes a form of therapy 
that emphasizes "cherishment," or bonding for the purpose of 
recovering our ties to the ancient feminine, and she deftly 
incorporates her search for her own voice in shaping the book into 
an organic whole.

    Rising from Douglas's lifelong interest in the psychology of the 
feminine, this book shows how healing is related naturally to a 
Motherline of attunement, connection, and cherishment.

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CLAIRE DOUGLAS, a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, 
is in private practice in Malibu, California. She trained at the C. G. 
Jung Institute of New York and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard 
University, where she carried out research on Jung. She has had a 
number of books published, along with many articles, essays, and 
book reviews.


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What people are saying about this book

"Douglas poignantly describes the difficulty of ego consciousness as 
it makes its return to a felt connection with Source and Ground of 
Being. The journey is life affirming and life renewing."—PsycCRITIQUES