abstract:Mary Elizabeth Pipher, PhD, (born October 21, 1947), also known as Mary Bray Pipher, is an American clinical psychologist and author, most recently of The Green Boat, which will be published by Riverhead Books in June 2013. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1977.