ABSTRACT
Many girls lose contact with their true selves, and when they do, they become extraordinarily vulnerable to a culture that is all too happy to use them for its purposes. . . . Girls who operate from a false self often reduce the world to a more manageable place by distorting reality. Some girls join cults in which others do their thinking for them. Some girls become anorexic and reduce all the complexity in life to just one issue-weight.
