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- Title: The Luckiest Girl in the World
- Author: Steven Levenkron
- ISBN: 9780684826042
- Page: 186
- Format: Hardcover
[PDF] The Luckiest Girl in the World | by ☆ Steven Levenkron, The Luckiest Girl in the World, Steven Levenkron, The Luckiest Girl in the World Katie Roskova appears to be the luckiest girl in the world but inwardly she suffers Unable to express her feelings outwardly Katie begins to secretly wound herself but as the pressures mount her self inflicted wounds become serious and she can no longer hide them from others [PDF] The Luckiest Girl in the World | by ☆ Steven Levenkron - The Luckiest Girl in the World, The Luckiest Girl in the World Katie Roskova appears to be the luckiest girl in the world but inwardly she suffers Unable to express her feelings outwardly Katie begins to secretly wound herself but as the pressures mount her s
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[PDF] The Luckiest Girl in the World | by ☆ Steven Levenkron
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Steven Levenkron
I keep waffling between 2 and 3 stars I picked up this book when I was struggling with self injury and while it helped me feel less alone it also left me discouraged The problem is that the solution is too easy Her cutting is discovered, after some initial reluctance makes huge breakthroughs with a therapist, becomes best friends with the girls in her therapy group, confronts her bossy bitch of a mom and they all get cake I realize that it s a novel and a novel aimed at adolescents but mental il [...]
Mr Levenkron really pushes his ideas about self mutilation According to him, there are two infallable truths 1 If you cut, it s your parent s fault 2 he is the best and most amazing therapist to ever grace the earth.
he tries to do for self injury what he did with anorexia the problem is that his character is a little too much of a trope, of the ideal self injurer in a way, there is no difference between this girl and the girl with anorexia still, it does say that even people with supposed perfect lives have bad shit going on and that they deal with it in different ways this is vitally important, i think, for the audience he is writing for still, it seemed too cliched and obvious but then again, i did read t [...]
Like The Best Little Girl in the World Levenkron s book about anorexia nervosa , this book holds pretty much true to his form of copying down the stereotype of who self injures and leaving it at that If a totally uninformed person read this book without any prior knowledge about self injury, s he would believe that a self injurer would always be white, privileged, young, an overachiever, and female This is not the case anyone can self injure.As a psychotherapist, I would expect Levenkron to have [...]
This was the second time I read this book and turns out I didn t remember much about it from the first time The book does a really great job of depicting such a serious topic in an understandable way The coping mechanism of cutting isn t really understood by a lot of teenagers and even so by adults This book does a great job of explaining why people have the urge through the eyes of the one hurting Katie Although it explains cutting throughout Katie s life, it also does a wonderful job of creat [...]
I would have loved this book as a young adult As an adult it felt formulaic and clich d I was bothered by the break in confidentiality exhibited by the therapist and this is written by a therapist even though it was a mild infraction, and I know that for some young people reading it could act as a trigger to engage in cutting or other similar behavior However, it was an interesting story and had some valuable material I liked it even though I didn t really like it and I wish I d enjoyed it less. [...]
Steven Levenkron s novel, The Luckiest Girl in the World, brings light to a touchy subject, self mutilation In this astounding novel, Katie Roskova is a figure skating star She seems to be the perfect child, athlete, and school star Levenkron 107 however, she has a secret Katie is The Skater Who Was Different Levenkron 26 When life becomes too much and she experiences emotions she can t handle Lebenkron 140 , and she finds relief in cutting herself Katie finds herself longing for help She hides [...]
For the first third of this book, I was thinking to myself that it was written for concerned parents and teachers to give to girls who were cutting themselves I didn t cut myself as a teenager I did other stuff but if I d been given this book, I would have thought it was ultra patronising and dumbed down so you wouldn t miss the point I nearly put it down at this stage, but not having anything else light in the house to read over lunch I perservered, and I am so glad I did.The author really knew [...]
I liked this book, but the character who best came to life for me was Sandy Sherman, which is no small surprise It s as if the writer guess what A psychiatrist specializing in issues such as Katie s just reinvented himself on the pages and as a hero at that I know they say to write about what you know, but it was almost too much straight from the notes of the doctor Still, the story kept me reading, and I finished the book in less that 24 hours The mother simply horrific But I don t want to spoi [...]
akljdflkasjdf amazing book.i wish it could have been longer only took me one afternoon to read it.but i bought it, so it was fantastic Dit really feels like the author puts a connection between the reader and the characterad it.
If you ve ever been a cutter, you can relate so well to this book Reading this helped me through my own problems An amazing story.
Seriously There are a myriad of reasons why people self injure, and having too perfect of a life is one I haven t really run into This book makes it all a little too neat and simple Another thing and I could be remembering this incorrectly is that he does not bring brain chemistry into this book Please feel free to correct me if I m wrong since I am going off a several year old memory I remembered feeling outraged by this book Not only is brain chemistry an element in illnesses such as depressio [...]
What do you do when you can t talk to your mother, you don t have time for friends, and there isn t an outlet for your emotions The Luckiest Girl in the World shows how one young girl felt the only way to heal herself was to harm herself For many girls and some guys self harm is a very real, very vivid part of their lives I read this book as a teenager fighting my own battle with learning how to use words instead of razors to heal my pain The book is extremely well written by one of the pioneers [...]
Self mutilation and cutting have become two of the most prevalent psychological disorders among teenage girls Steven Levenkron is a well known psychotherapist in New York City who specializes in treating self mutilators along with those who suffer from OCD and eating disorders The Luckiest Girl in the World is a fictitious treatment of a self mutilator Levenkron clearly knows what he is talking about, and writes about this illness tenderly without condoning it.This novel reads like an elongated [...]
In my opinion this is an excellent book The most important part of the book, to me, was the way Katie thought about herself.She kept thinking of herself as stupid, as not being a good person at all The lines that really sounded so much like my own thinking were As soon as people know about you, they run And that s the way it s always going to be It was interesting to learn that others think of themselves just like I do with very strong self hatred Over and over in the book I saw how Katie though [...]
A book guaranteed to appeal to young adult readers who like Lurlene McDaniel Written from several points of view, this story about an ice skater who is also a cutter reveals something about a problem facing an increasing number of teens The problem is handled tactfully, and does not even allude to the common perception of cutters as out for attention The book reflects its publication date of 1997 one of the therapists works in a private school and has no experience with this problem Overall an e [...]
Initially, I was hesitant to read this book because hm, I m not sure But, you know, today I picked it up and I read it and I am really quite happy I did I think Steven Levenkron does an amazing job of capturing what life is like for the Katies of the world, from what it feels like physically to how it hurts emotionally and just what it does His descriptions are vivid and enlightening It s an accessible read for young adult readers and he manages to make some sense out of what doesn t, well, make [...]
Levenkron calls this a novelized case study but it s of a novelized stereotype He would have done better to create a unique character with a bit reality to her than Katie And look at the subtitle A Young Skater Battles Her Self Destructive Impulses sounds like a good time, doesn t it Ech Still, I m glad there s literature on this subjectbut maybe Levenkron needs a writing buddy or something.
A good book about cutting I have had to replace this book twice in the past 2 years It s not as popular as other books on the topic, and I m not sure why because it is written very well I do know that a few girls who picked it up to read chose not to because of the ice skating they said they don t ice skate.
I felt this book gave a good insight into some of the reasons why a person feels the need to self harm It wasn t over the top or overly dramatic when it came to the main characters personal life and the issues she was dealing with I started reading this book and could not put it down Great read and would recommend it to anyone who is dealing with this issue.
This book isn t bad, but it focuses too much on a stereotype to be completely accurate Though the writing style isn t spectacular, it makes for an alright quick read I read it once before and felt the same way As a recovering self mutilator myself, I can relate to numerous parts of Katie s struggle with cutting.
Once again, Steven Levenkron takes the mental illness du jour and writes a novel about it It was interesting to learn the causes of cutting, but after reading his The Best Little Girl in the World, it felt like a formula.
I think of all the YA cutting books I ve read, this one is the best written Some kids find the skating theme to be overdone or to take away from why they were reading the story, however Still, I like it far better than Cut, which kids read far often.
This book really hit home to me The author did a fair job of portraying self harm This book tells cutters that they aren t alone, and tells non cutters what it feels like to be in that situation.
Reads like a Lifetime movie Levenkron may well be a good doctor but he is not the best writer.
This book is so realmakes so much senseI can relate to it
This is the amazing book that I ve been longing to read
This is about a girl who loves to ice skateher mother pressures her every timepushing her to do better.d to deal with the trouble, the girl cuts herself in secret.
I read this book a very long time ago It has stuck with me and pops into my mind from time to time.
I loved this book because I somewhat went through what the girl did too I learned that talking to someone will always help.