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Authors: Mary Pipher

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case stories
and drug/alcohol use
parental sensitivity to
positive friendship
pressures on sex
reliance on values of
Perfectionism
Personality.
See also
Depression; Emotions; True self/false self conflict
bulimia-induced changes in
societal impact on
Physical selves. See Appearance
Plath, Sylvia
Plato
Pornography
Posttraumatic stress
Power issues
Preadolescent girls
Pregnancy, case story
Psychic pain. See Pain, psychic
Psychology
author’s orientation
on distancing from mother
male domination of field
negative view of families
studies only on males
Psychotherapy. See
also subhead
case studies
under specific subjects
difficulties with/suggested approach for adolescent girls
“solution talk” vs. “problem talk”
Puberty, definition
Purging.
See
Bulimia
Racism
Rape.
See
Sexual assault
Reading
Reality distortion
Reasoning, emotions affecting
Recreation facilities
Religion
Reno, Janet
Repression
Role models
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Scapegoating
Schools.
See also
Junior high school; Peers
drug/alcohol programs
gender discrimination in
as negative environment (case story)
as positive environment (case story)
reasons for girls’ academic fading
sexual harassment in
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schreiner, Olive
Science, girls’ problems with
Self. See Personality; True self/false self conflict
Self-absorption
Self-defense classes
Self-denial, anorexic
Self-esteem
Self-mutilation.
See also
Suicide attempts
case stories
Sex.
See
Sexuality
Sex education
Sex objects
Sexism.
See
Misogynistic culture
Sexual assault
by acquaintance
by family member
case stories
compulsive eating linked to fear of
incidence statistics
initial reaction to
as major issue for adolescent girls
trauma of
Sexual harassment
Sexuality
alcohol use and
case stories
confusion over
decision-making on limits
earlier age for
intercourse vs. other expressions of
media depictions in 1950s
media depictions in 1990s
multiple partners
1990s openness about
overeating and fears of
parental sensitivity to issues of
parental values
Shakespeare, William
Shigellae
Sills, Beverly
Single-parent homes
father-daughter case stories
Small-town life (1950s)
contrasted with 1990s’ anonymity
Smart Girls, Gifted Women
(Kerr)
Smoking
Social learning theory
Social pressures. See Cultural pressures
Social selves. See Family; Peers
Spears, Natasha
Spender, Dale
Spirituality
Sports
Stein, Gertrude
Steinem, Gloria
Stendhal
Step-families. See Blended families
Story of an African Farm, The
(Schreiner)
Strength
case stories
characteristics of
definitions of
Stress
alcohol and
food bingeing and
posttraumatic
self-mutilation and
skills to deal with
Substance abuse. See Alcohol use; Drug use; Food disorders
Suicide attempts
Support groups
Systems theory
Teachers.
See
Schools
Teenage
girls. See
Adolescent girls
Terman, Louis
Textbooks
Therapy.
See
Psychotherapy;
subhead
case stories
under specific issues
Thinking process
Thinness.
See
Weight concerns
Thoreau, Henry David
Tolstoy, Leo
True self/false self conflict
acceptance of body
in adolescent girls
bulimic’s loss of
case stories
from cultural pressures
in dealing with emotions
depression as result of
and emotional break from family
factors in keeping true self
femininity training producing
for parental approval in childhood
and resistance to peer pressure
therapeutic encouragement to end
and thinking process
Trust
Twain, Mark
Twixt Twelve and Twenty
(Boone)
Unpredictability
Validation
Vietnamese-Americans, case story
Violence sexual
(see
Sexual assault)
Virginity
Volland, Sophie
Volunteerism.
See
Altruism
Weight concerns
amphetamine/caffeine use linked with
anorexic’s obsessive
bulimia developing from
of compulsive eater
based on cultural expectations
current cult of thinness
parental stance on
Wells, H. G.
White, Michael
Women. See Adolescent girls; Adult women; Mothers;
and specific issues
Women for Sobriety
Writing, for self-clarification
Zitkala-Sa
Zywicki, Tammy
COMING IN HARDCOVER FROM
MARY PIPHER
SEEKING PEACE:
Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
In this thoughtful and inspiring memoir, the author of the
New York Times
bestsellers
Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other,
and
Another Country
explores her personal search for understanding, tranquility, and respect through her work as a psychologist and writer.
“There are three kinds of secrets. Those we keep from everyone, those we keep from certain people, and those we keep from ourselves. Writing this book forced me to deal with all three.”
—from SEEKING PEACE

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