![]() As a therapist, she was bewildered by the spate of such young girls coming in for therapy, and sought out the conditions and causes that she shares with us in her book. ![]() Reviving Ophelia was written out of her quest for understanding the reasons behind the ever- increasing rate of suicides among young girls, the many cases of eating disorders, ‘doing drugs and alcohol’, self-mutilation and so on. Pipher, is a therapist with other books to her credit: Hunger Pains: The American Women’s Tragic Quest for Thinness and The Shelter of Each Other. This is a tragedy that is not just familiar from the pages of medieval European history, but is also representative of the condition of girls growing up in modern times. ![]() In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia struggles to please and find approval from both Hamlet and her father and ultimately she loses her sanity and her life. It is rarely that one comes across a book about young girls that is not merely a saga of their times, of the pain and struggles in their lives, but also takes a proactive approach to actually doing what the title suggests – Reviving Ophelia. ![]()
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