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Chapter 3 Summary: “Developmental Considerations”. Pipher met Charlotte, the first girl whose story is told in the chapter, for therapy when she was 15 years old. Her story sounds very similar to Cayenne’s: She did fairly well as a child and then experienced a major downward shift when she entered junior high. She ends up in the hands of ...
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.
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Mar 3, 2015 · Psychologist Mary Piper and musician Natalie Merchant both treated Ophelia as an essential archetype of women’s experience. She seemed to haunt the consciousness of western art and literature; and the reason was easily understood if you accepted the basic premise of Shakespeare’s divine powers.
978-0-345-39282-4. 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 ...
- Mary Bray Pipher
- 1994
Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. When Reviving Ophelia was first published the response was extraordinary. She posed the provocative question: Why are American adolescent girls falling prey to depression, eating disorders, and suicide attempts at an alarming rate? The answer hit a nerve. We live in a look-obsessed, sexist “girl ...
Magazine Issue. July/August 2019. Share. In 1994, after being rejected by 13 publishers, Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia finally appeared. Written with an anthropologist’s eye and ear, it was filled with vivid stories of her teenage clients and their struggles to move toward adulthood in what she called a “girl-poisoning junk culture.”
Jun 30, 2019 · Email. The 1994 book Revivng Ophelia spotlighted the mental health of teenage girls. Years later, author Mary Pipher and her daughter Sara Pipher Gilliam have updated the book...
