![]() ![]() From depression and anxiety to addiction and suicide, Mary. 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. First published in 1994, Reviving Ophelia illuminated the problems faced by adolescent women. Here, for the first time, are girls' unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. Mary Pipher became one of the most sought-after speakers in the country. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this "problem with no name" instead of looking at the world around them. When 'Reviving Ophelia was first published nearly a decade ago, the response was extraordinary-and Dr. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence-from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school-cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. ![]()
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