Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre and Antidote, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978), Hunger Strike (1986), The Impossibility of Sex (1999), and On Eating (2002).

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What's Really Going On Here?

by Susie Orbach

Here are fascinating articles on sex, jealousy, anger, intimacy, loss, food problems, parent/child relationships, sibling rivalry and much more...from Susie Orbach, truly innovative therapist and a... (more)

On Eating

by Susie Orbach

In this volume, the author shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat. 'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie Orbach. But for so many of us... (more)

Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age

by Susie Orbach

In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It... (more)

The Impossibility of Sex

by Susie Orbach

In these intriguing accounts, Susie Orbach, the celebrated author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, presents us with six imaginary clinical cases, including Adam, the serial seducer; Belle, the compulsive... (more)

Fifty Shades of Feminism

Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach

Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism -... (more)

Fifty Shades of Feminism

Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach

Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism... (more)

Fat is A Feminist Issue

by Susie Orbach

The original anti-diet book is back - in one volume, together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today... (more)

In Therapy: The Unfolding Story

by Susie Orbach

In this complete and updated edition of the groundbreaking In Therapy, world-renowned therapist Susie Orbach reveals what really goes on in therapy. Worldwide, increasingly large numbers of people... (more)

Bodies

by Susie Orbach

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present... (more)

What Do Women Want?

by Susie Orbach, Luise Eichenbaum

'This book highlights the fact that women are brought up to understand men's emotional needs but men are not brought up to understand women's. (more)

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