Friends Celebrate His Life and Legacy
Esther Perel, Jay Lappin, Mary Jo Barrett, Mary Pipher, Richard Schwartz, Ron Taffel, Terry Real • 3/2/2021
Sharing how Rich Simon impacted our lives—and the field as a whole.
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Learning to Age with New Openness in Our Hearts and Minds
Mary Pipher • 6/23/2020
As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. At 70, we’re unlikely to be able to function as we did in our 50s. We require fresh visions and new paradigms for framing our experiences. What worked yesterday will not be sufficient for tomorrow.
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Helping Them Find Their North Star
Mary Pipher • 7/3/2019
On the 25th anniversary of her landmark book Reviving Ophelia, the author reflects on what she’s learned over the years about working with teenage girls and helping them resist a culture that keeps encouraging them to be the object of another’s gaze.
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Highlights from Symposium 2019
Mary Pipher • 5/6/2019
Mary Pipher, author of the classic Reviving Ophelia and nine subsequent books, was this year’s recipient of the Networker’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her many contributions to broadening the perspective of the field and expanding its moral imagination.
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Authors:
MARY PIPHER, PH.D.
SARA GILLIAM, MFA, MED
Authors:
MARY PIPHER, PH.D.
SARA GILLIAM, MFA, MED
Navigating Life’s Final Stages
Mary Pipher • 3/9/2018
As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. At 70, we’re unlikely to be able to function as we did in our 50s. We require fresh visions and new paradigms for framing our experiences. What worked yesterday will not be sufficient for tomorrow.
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Rekindling Our Moral Imagination and Courage
Mary Pipher • 7/11/2017
By Mary Pipher - Both good writing and effective therapy rely on the ability to move beyond the self to understand how the world looks and feels to another person. Here, an author and psychotherapist argues that this quality of "moral imagination" is crucial to our ability to face the enormous challenges that face us, not only in our consulting rooms, but in the wider world we share with one another.
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Reversing Climate Change May Not Be Beyond Our Reach
Mary Pipher • 12/9/2016
By Mary Pipher - We live in a culture of denial, especially about the grim reality of climate change. Sure, we want to savor the occasional shrimp cocktail without having to brood about ruined mangroves, but we can’t solve a problem we can’t face.
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We’ll Never Be Here Again: Stopping to Listen on a Late-life Passage
Mary Pipher • 7/1/2015
A sexagenarian contemplates the sobering knowledge that she’s got “a tiny little future and a great big past.”
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The Qualities of Good Therapy, and Where Today's Clinicians Stand
Mary Pipher • 3/20/2015
Over the past few decades, therapy has made great strides. However, there are areas in which I think therapy may have also gotten worse. The essence of therapy remains the relationship, and the greatest gift to a client with virtually any problem is a focused, curious, empathic listener. But right now, pressure to speed up therapy can undercut the sanctity of the therapeutic relationship. Like good cooking, I think good therapy takes time. In many ways, we’re treating people in therapy offices as if it were 1960. But it’s a really different time, and there are a lot of issues we’re not approaching because we don’t know how.
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