Maureen Murdock, PhD is a psychotherapist, writing teacher and the author of eight books, including The Heroine's Journey:Woman's Quest for Wholeness, a ground-breaking book which revealed a broader understanding of the female psyche on both a personal and cultural level. Murdock is also the author of Unreliable Truth, The Heroine's Journey Workbook; Fathers' Daughters; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children and is the editor of an anthology of memoirs written by her writing students entitled Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life. Her newest book, Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir, was published by Shambhala in 2024.
The following interviews give an in-depth view of her work.
An interview with Maria Souza of womenandmythology.com
May 24, 2023
Maria offers a 10-week-long course focused on the wisdom provided by the stages in The Heroine’s Journey. She has participants from all over the world and the following questions were submitted by women in her women’s circle from Shanghai, China, Russia, France, India, Brail, Mexico, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Peru, Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, UK, Malta and the Netherlands. We talked about fear; the contribution of the women’s movement to the Illusory Boon of Success; the mother-daughter relationship; identifying the inner masculine; successful women’s leaders; and dualism.
Published in C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta Quarterly NewsSummer 2005
Women are standing, lining the walls, spilling over into the hallway — all of us hungering to learn about ourselves, about the meaning of our life journeys as we gather to listen to Maureen Murdock’s lecture, “The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness,” at last year’s Mythic Journeys’ Conference in Atlanta. We are not disappointed; we hear an inspiring discussion of the ways our journeys as women, as heroines, are both important and different from men’s journeys. Maureen Murdock is first of all, a very wise woman who articulates the issues facing us as individuals and as a culture. She is also a family therapist who was licensed in 1982, and she is an educational consultant. Murdock was Core Faculty and past Chair of the M.A. Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and she currently teaches in the Depth Psychology Program at Sonoma State University. . .