Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Mary Pipher
The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller. More than 1.5 million copies sold. Now available from Riverhead.
This is the groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: Why are American adolescent girls falling prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and dangerously low self-esteem? Dr. Pipher posits that it's America's sexist, look-obsessed "girl-poisoning" culture-one in which girls are constantly struggling to find their true selves. In Reviving Ophelia, these girls' uncensored voices are heard from the front lines of adolescence. Personal and painfully honest, this is a compassionate call to arms, offering strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost senses of self.
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The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls?
As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with Pipher, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a girl-poisoning” culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive.
Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.
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- Title Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
- Author Mary Pipher
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date August 1, 2005
- ISBN 9781594481888 / 1594481881
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.6 x 0.83 in (20.42 x 14.22 x 2.11 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 900
- Library of Congress subjects Self-esteem in adolescence, Teenage girls - Psychology
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.235
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