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Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls
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Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls

Author: Mary Bray Pipher
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st Ballantine Books edView all editions and formats
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In this eye-opening and knowing look at the complex world of teenage girls, psychologist Pipher writes of the dangerous and devastating realities that face young girls today--dysfunctional families, incest. abuse, introduction to sex too soon, eating disorders--and tells how to confront and understand them.
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Case Reports
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Bray Pipher
ISBN: 0345392825 9780345392824
OCLC Number: 32127671
Description: 304 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Saplings in the storm --
Theoretical issues--for your own good --
Developmental issues--
"I'm not waving, I'm drowning" --
Families--the root systems --
Mothers --
Fathers --
Divorce --
Within the hurricane--depression --
Worshiping the Gods of thinness --
Drugs and alcohol--if Ophelia were alive today --
Sex and violence --
Then and now --
What I've learned from listening --
Let a thousand flowers bloom --
A fence at the top of the hill.
Responsibility: Mary Pipher.

Abstract:

In this eye-opening and knowing look at the complex world of teenage girls, psychologist Pipher writes of the dangerous and devastating realities that face young girls today--dysfunctional families, incest. abuse, introduction to sex too soon, eating disorders--and tells how to confront and understand them.

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