6/22/2023 0 Comments Reviving ophelia saving the selves![]() ![]() But then, the girls Pipher sees are in treatment for problems. I find myself immediately sorry that Pipher has had such depressing experiences with girls and described adolescence itself as such a sad and tragic. ![]() Girls are a miasma of “eating disorders, school phobias, self-inflicted injuries… great unhappiness… anxiety… a total focus on looks.” They are “moody, demanding, and distant… elusive… easily offended… slow to trust… sullen and secretive… depressed… overwhelmed… symptomatic… anorexic… alcoholic… in a dangerous place… traumatized.” They “bristle when touched.” They are fragile “saplings in a hurricane.” And we’re not even halfway into the first chapter. One girl said, ‘Everything good in me died in junior high.’ Wholeness is shattered by the chaos of adolescence,” Pipher begins. ![]() To Pipher, teenage girls occupy a lost, dead, chaotic world. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls ![]()
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