Her research into the mythic imagination that began in the late 1960s has led to many workshops, seminars, and professional papers examining culture through the artifacts of anthropology, literature, aesthetics, gender, film/fairytale, and folk art traditions. As an educator she has worked for cross-cultural awareness and equal opportunity for women and minorities for over 40 years. She lectures internationally on developmental issues of psychology, particularly as it relates to the unique difficulties that women face in realizing their optimal psychological growth in the world of work, love, and intimacy. Many of these lectures have been published in professional journals.