According to Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD, healthy wolves and healthy women share certain mental characteristics: keen senses, a playful spirit, and deep loyalty. Wolves and women are related by nature, curious, endowed with endurance and strength. Studying wolves, Dr Estes first crystallised the concept of the Wild Woman archetype. In the book, which became a global bestseller and a New York Times sensation, Estes reveals this archetype, deciphers ancient legends and well-known children's tales, and explains it with examples from her psychoanalytic practice.

Women Running with Wolves began as notes in 1970, and in 1971 Estes took up the text. It took her twenty years to complete the book, a work about the love and resurrection of the women of our world, and she was rejected 42 times before it was first published by Ballantine/Random House in 1992. In 1995, an updated edition was published with an appendix and a new wolf's tale.

About the Ukrainian edition:

The Ukrainian edition of the book was created by transdisciplinary artist Olena Nevertiy (Para Platform project). The cover features a fragment of a sacred dance dedicated to the awakening of the Spirit and purification by the elemental elements: Earth, Fire, Space, Water, Air. Each element has its own dance, which forms a harmonious relationship with the Planet as a living organism. The women are wearing natural wool garments woven using ancient technologies, reinterpreted and improved to become a bridge between the heritage of their ancestors and the achievements of the present, linking the shores of time together. The best masters of weaving of the Ukrainian Carpathians joined the creation of the project, united by the idea to popularise archaic art forms and manual labour in general as a powerful act of collective healing.

Reviews:

Lena Nevertiy first read Clarissa Pinkola Estes' book in 2015:

"«She Who Runs with Wolves» is a temple of the soul, a chronicle of awakening. The book symbolises endless life. Inside it, there is a big world, so alive and rich, in which everyone can remember themselves, discover their deep nature."

"One of the most important books of my life. That's to put it briefly and with pathos. And if it is detailed and down-to-earth, then pick it up and run with the wolves: it is an incredible treasure. As you open it, you will stumble upon the current situation of your life as if by accident. It is a book of truth, secret and insightful. A book of catharsis: you will certainly cry because it is about you and will help you. A book of secrets: hide it from ordinary men (but slip it to extraordinary men). I am glad to see the Ukrainian translation. I love Estes."

— Irena Karpa, writer, singer, First Secretary for Culture of the Embassy of Ukraine in France.