Madeline Levine, Ph.D.
 

ISBN: 0060595841
Pub: HarperCollins, 2006
Pages: 256

Critical Praise for
The Price of Privilege
"[Written] with clarity and understanding of the culture of affluence and its pitfalls for parents."
- Library Journal

"Fresh and important ideas about parenting in the age of affluence…"
- Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia

"Useful...clear, sensitive..."
- Publisher's Weekly

"In this insightful book, Levine eschews the temptation to dismiss problems of privileged teens as overindulgence."
- Book List

"Levine offers chapter after chapter of practical advice for dealing with family problems."
- Connecticut Post Online

"[Madeline Levine's] ideas may be uncomfortable for parents to read, but they're a wonderful wake-up call."
- Bay Area Insider

"Levine's book explores some troubling and intriguing issues that certainly are worth pondering and discussing."
- Marin Independent Journal

"...[an] impassioned wake-up call to parents..."
-The Gazette (Montreal)

"Madeline Levine’s book...offer[s] real hope and help to families suffering from the stress of success...She offers solid, proactive strategies for becoming a more connected, relaxed parent."
-Chicago Tribune

"This book has resonated in affluent communities all over the country. [Levine is] clearly on to something."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Her writing is warm and carefully thoughtful."
-Toronto Star

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Madeline Levine, Ph.D. has been a practicing clinical psychologist in Marin County for the past twenty-five years. She is the author of several books including The Price of Privilege; Viewing Violence; and See No Evil. A frequent lecturer on child and adolescent issues, she lives in California with her husband and three sons.

Watch video of Dr. Levine on ABC/7 News: Privileged Teens Suffering from Depression (May 3, 2007)

What Price, Privilege?
Has our overinvolved parenting style created a generation of kids with an impaired sense of self? If so, how can we work to get it back?

San Francisco Chronicle
by Madeline Levine, Ph.D.
Sunday, June 25, 2006

It was 6:15 p.m. Friday when I closed the door behind my last unhappy teenage patient of the week. I slumped into my well-worn chair feeling depleted and surprisingly close to tears. The 15-year-old girl who had just left my office was bright, personable, highly pressured by her adoring, but frequently preoccupied, affluent parents, and very angry. She had used a razor to incise the word EMPTY on her left forearm, showing it to me when I commented on her typical cutter disguise -- a long-sleeve T-shirt pulled halfway over her hand, with an opening torn in the cuff for her thumb. I tried to imagine how intensely unhappy my young patient must have felt to cut her distress into her flesh.

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