Mary Bray Pipher

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October 21, 1947 in The United States

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Mary Elizabeth Pipher, also known as Mary Bray Pipher, 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 received a 2006 Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association, which she returned in 2007 as a protest against the APA's acknowledgement that some of its members participate in controversial interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay and at US "black sites".

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Average rating: 3.81 · 13,772 ratings · 1,273 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Reviving Ophelia 3.79 avg rating — 10,884 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Letters to a Young Therapist 3.99 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community by Mary Bray Pipher, Susan Cohen 3.93 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World 3.64 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Shelter of Each Other 4.04 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Writing to Change the World 3.87 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders 3.96 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Hunger Pains 3.61 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Eating Disorders 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	My rating:
	Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne, Mary Bray Pipher (Foreword by) 4.02 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.”
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“When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.”
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“I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)”
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