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Jungian psychoanalyst, political activist and author; professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen

American psychiatrist

Jean Shinoda Bolen (born June 29, 1936) is an American psychiatrist, Jungian analyst and author. She is of Japanese descent. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, she is an emeritus clinical professor of psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF Medical Center and member of the C.G.

Jung Institute of San Francisco.

Hosted by the Charter for Compassion.

Author, Jungian Analyst, Psychiatrist, Activist, Women's Circle Advocate.

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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).

Background

Her mother, Megumi Yamaguchi, and aunt, Fumiko Yamaguchi, were both physicians, as were two uncles and her maternal grandfather.^[1] 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