Dellasega (Penn State College of Medicine), who leads therapeutic writing workshops, solicited autobiographical essays from mothers of troubled teenage daughters. The 200 essays are presented here, chronicling the mothers' experiences with daughters who were anorexic, bulemic, depressed, runaways, and so on, grouped according to themes such as interventions, institutions, and coping with crises. The audience will be mothers of teenagers who seek stories similar to their own. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

“This courageous book offers clear insight and direction to mothers struggling with how to help their daughters restore their future while they reclaim their own lives.”—CAROL MAXYM Co-author of Teens in Turmoil“Thank you [Cheryl Dellasega] for showing mothers everywhere that we are not alone in our struggle to help our daughters. . . . Surviving Ophelia is mesmerizing and the truth of its stories resonates.”—SUE WELLMAN, President The Ophelia Project

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