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Pipher opens Reviving Ophelia by talking about her cousin Polly, a girl who was vibrant and bold in her childhood but who lost herself in the challenges of adolescence. She writes this book for girls everywhere who are struggling with adolescence and their parents, who are best equipped to help them through it.
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.
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Marie and husband Walter have a 17-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, who has a picture-perfect life with a seemingly equally-wonderful boyfriend named Mark. Le Anne raises her 16-year-old daughter Kelli and struggles to relate to the pressures Kelli is facing with boys, friends, and school. Then Mark and Elizabeth's relationship turns stormy: Mark ...
In Reviving Ophelia, clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Pipher discusses the social and cultural pressures faced by today's adolescent girls. She analyzes the case histories of her young patients in an attempt to understand them and make recommendations for change.
Jan 1, 2001 · Happy as a young girl, Ophelia loses herself in adolescence and lives only for the approval of Hamlet and her father. She goes mad with grief when her authority figures spurn her, and finally drowns herself in a stream. Author Mary Pipher wrote this book hoping to help parents prevent Ophelia-like experiences with their own daughters.
Here are girls’ unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias’ lost sense of self.
