Reviving Ophelia
by Mary Pipher · first published 2005
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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. Perso
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…Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson - Ego is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key, and The Obstacle Is the Way; all 3 books by Ryan Holiday - Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher[2] 1. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/books-of-2021/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reviving_Ophelia
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…next few decades [2] Girls have internalizing problems and we say they are sensitive, Boys have externalizing problems and we say they are brutes. Boys who have internalizing problems are invisible. Reviving Ophelia was actually a great book that brought Kohut's self-psychology into the mainstream but people came to the wrong conclusions from it: while teenage girls are anguished about their self-image, teenage…
on “Ask HN: Why didn't people 40 years ago worry about population collapse today?” ↗You might check out a book called “Reviving Ophelia”.
on “Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls” ↗I completely agree. In the book Reviving Ophelia [1] the author asserts that the most well-adjusted girls were the ones who had plenty of well-defined boundaries at home. Rules are good and accepted in the adult world; why would the child world be…
on “Taking Children Seriously” ↗…about myself if I started making huge sweeping generalizations about a gender? Its bad for males, and its bad for females. Primarily, any effect one "tries" to find is so close to 50% its useless. Tl;Dr. Reviving Ophelia is junk science, meant only to sell more of their books.
on “Taking Children Seriously” ↗…we wanted to be one of the better ones. A while back, we started with Bringing up Bébé, and since then learnt How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk; we were even Prepared while Reviving Ophelia. This year, we realized, we want to just settle on being A Good Enough Parent. 1. https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Up-Bébé-Discovers-Parenting/... 2. https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/14516638...…
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗