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
thinking style capacity
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.
thinking people secret
I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
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.
body western brands
In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
pregnancy play wanted
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
body young young-women
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
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.
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.
long conflict scots
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
joy disaster analysts
I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.
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.
girl years fiji
When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.