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Jan 1, 2001 · June 27, 2016. An important book for the parents of adolescent girls. In her practice as a therapist, Pipher became concerned about the number of adolescent girls she was seeing with severe depression, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and cripplingly low self-esteem.
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Reviving Ophelia was written in 1994 by Mary Pipher, a psychologist who works with women and teen girls, studying the ways cultural norms impact their mental health.The book comprises a collection of Pipher’s essays, which are based on the interviews and focus groups with adolescent girls she conducted with her daughter, Sara Pipher.
Jun 19, 2019 · Reviving Ophelia was a phenomenon whose influence on cultural conversation can be seen in later pop-psychology books and academic studies. A new 25th anniversary edition published this month (with ...
Jun 6, 2019 · The evolution of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls--the 25th Anniversary edition by Mary Pipher and Sara Pipher Gilliam: In the early 1990s, Mary was a therapist working ...
Jun 26, 2019 · When Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls came out in 1994, I was 16, and had recently passed through the early-adolescent crisis that Pipher’s book defined.
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Reviving Ophelia was written out of her quest for understanding the reasons behind the ever- increasing rate of suicides among young girls, the many cases of eating disorders, ‘doing drugs and alcohol’, self-mutilation and so on. As a therapist, she was bewildered by the spate of such young girls coming in for therapy, and sought out the ...
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OCLC. 670317168. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a 1994 book written by Mary Pipher. This book examines the effects of societal pressures on American adolescent girls, and utilizes many case studies from the author's experience as a therapist. [1] The book has been described as a "call to arms" and highlights the ...
