Marion Woodman

Canadian Jungian analyst who wrote Addiction to Perfection, The Pregnant Virgin, and Dancing in the Flames — developing the Jungian understanding of the addicted psyche, the embodied feminine, and the relationship between eating disorders and the rejection of the body — one of the most influential Jungian voices of the late 20th century.

Articulated the Jungian analysis of the addicted personality and eating disorders as a rejection of embodied feminine life — perfectionism is a form of spiritual inflation that denies the body's reality — and developed 'Conscious Femininity' as the integration of the body, nature, and the Great Mother archetype.