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
Susie Orbach quotes about
work
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
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.
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.
emotional understanding way
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
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.
therapists
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
kitchen wish needs
I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.