Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach
Susie Orbachis a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. She is married to the author Jeanette Winterson...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
work
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
life
Paradoxically, her lot in life is to be perpetually noticed.
confused mean emotional
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.
criticism today size
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
trying likes unbearable
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
boys men age
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
emotional understanding way
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
likes persons
I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
wrinkles hiding cupboards
If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.
long conflict scots
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
daughter mother encouragement
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
trying needs consumers
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
pregnancy play wanted
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
food want thinness
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.