Reviving ophelia saving the selves of adolescent girls covers a lot of the same ground as unprotected a campus psychiatrist reveals how political correctness in her profession endangers every student we read about adolescent girls struggling with depression eating disorders self mutilation premature sexual involvement etc. The first time i purchased reviving ophelia saving the selves of adolescent girls by mary pipher it was because my own daughter was going through a very rough time and i wanted to understand her better and find out if there was something that i could do. Reviving ophelia is a call to arms from dr mary pipher a psychologist who has worked with teenagers for more than a decade she finds that in spite of the womens movement which has empowered adult women in some ways teenage girls today are having a harder time than ever before because of higher levels of violence and sexism