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Mary Pipher's ground-breaking investigation of America's
girl-poisoning culture," Reviving Ophelia , established its author
as one of the nation's foremost authorities on family issues. In
Letters to a Young Therapist , Pipher shares what she has learned
in thirty years of clinical practice, helping warring families,
alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and
beauty to their lives. Through an exhilarating mix of storytelling
and sharp-eyed observation, Pipher reveals her refreshingly
inventive approach to therapy,fiercely optimistic, free of dogma or
psychobabble, and laced with generous warmth and practical common
sense. Whether she's recommending daily swims for a sluggish
teenager, encouraging a timid husband to become bolder, or simply
bearing witness to a bereaved parent's sorrow, Pipher's compassion
and insight shine from every page. Newly updated with a preface by
the author addressing the changes in therapy over the last decade
and the surprising challenges of the digital age, Letters to a
Young Therapist is a powerfully engaging guide to living a healthy
life.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a
guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as
Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled
with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them
grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have
always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely
examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as
they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister,
mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural
anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient
responses to the challenges they face. "If we can keep our wits
about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully,"
Pipher writes, "we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If
we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps
and guides, the journey can be transcendent."
Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of
wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she
connects us with the newest members of the American
family--refugees. In cities all over the country, refugees arrive
daily. Lost Boys from Sudan, survivors from Kosovo, families
fleeing Afghanistan and Vietnam: they come with nothing but the
desire to experience the American dream. Their endurance in the
face of tragedy and their ability to hold on to the virtues of
family, love, and joy are a lesson for Americans. Their stories
will make you laugh and weep--and give you a deeper understanding
of the wider world in which we live.
"The Middle of Everywhere" moves beyond the headlines into the
homes of refugees from around the world. Working as a cultural
broker, teacher, and therapist, Mary Pipher has once again opened
our eyes--and our hearts--to those with whom we share the
future.
Families, the bedrock of our society and culture, are today under
assault from every side. Parents, struggling under their own
pressures and unmet needs, do not know how to protect their
children from crime, poverty, abuse, and media violence. The
pursuit of money and objects has supplanted caring and
intimacy--and our stressed-out children bear the consequences.
In THE SHELTER OF EACH OTHER, psychologist and bestselling
author Mary Pipher does for the American family what she did for
adolescent girls and their parents in Reviving Ophelia: she opens
our eyes to the realities we are facing and shows us how to change
the way we live. Drawing on the fascinating stories of families
rich and poor, angry and despairing, religious and skeptical, and
probing her own experiences, Pipher wisely and compassionately
challenges each of us to find the courage to nurture and revivify
the families we cherish.
O Pioneers was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece
has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of
Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly
various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to
any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain
state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a
vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family
businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western
lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic
families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere.
Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming home,
falling apart or finding love, these stories represent contemporary
fiction at its best, from the high style of Richard Dooling's
"Immortal Man" to Kent Haruf's soft-spoken "Dancing," from Ron
Hansen's "My Communist" to Jonis Agee's earthy, offbeat "Binding
the Devil." Original, spirited, and surprising, these contemporary
writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition
of great fiction from Nebraska into the twenty-first century.
Ladette Randolph, the associate director and humanities editor at
the University of Nebraska Press. She is the author of a collection
of short stories This Is Not the Tropics (2006) and recipient of
numerous awards, including the Virginia Faulkner Award, Rona Jaffe
Foundation Writer's Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Mary Pipher has
taught clinical psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and is the author of several books, including the bestseller
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
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