Search - List of Books by Mary Pipher
"Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts." -- Mary Pipher
Mary Elizabeth Pipher, also known as Mary Bray Pipher (born 21 October 1947), Ph.D., is an American clinical psychologist and author. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln in 1977. She was a Rockefeller Scholar In Residence at Bellagio in 2001. She received two American Psychological Association Presidential Citations. She returned the one she received in 2006 as a protest against the APA's acknowledgment that some of its members participate in controversial interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay and at US "black sites".
She resides in Lincoln, Nebraska.
"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."
- Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
- Letters to a Young Therapist
- The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to our Town
- Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls; best seller for over three years
- The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families to Enrich Our Lives, New York Times best seller
- Writing to Change the World
- Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
Total Books: 51