Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look obsessed, media saturated, "girl poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school cause