Her revealing study of people above retirement age dismantles many of the cartoonish stereotypes prevalent among the young, the middle-aged, and the mass media. In the same Shakespearean vein, she could have called this new book "Dispatching Polonius," after the dim, irritating, ineffectual old blowhard of that same play. Psychologist Mary Pipher is best known for "Reviving Ophelia," her mega-bestselling study of adolescent girls named for that most heartbreaking of Shakespeare's creations, the gifted but fragile young woman who loved Hamlet. Whose most recent books are "The Growth of the Mind" and "In Her Own Right: The IOM Guide to Women's Health Issues." Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
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