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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst,writer and social critic from London, UK[1]. In 1976 she co-founded The Women’s Therapy Centre, in 1976 and in 1981 The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York. [2] She has been a consultant for The World Bank, the NHS and Unilever and was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.[citation needed] Susie is a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and was a Visiting Professor at London School of Economics for 10 years. She is currently chair of the Relational School in the UK, is convener of Anybody (www.any-body.org), an organisation that campaigns for body diversity and is a founder member of ANTIDOTE (www.antidote.org.uk), working for emotional literacy and Psychotherapists and Councellors for Social Responsibility (www.pcsr.org.uk). She lectures and broadcasts extensivley world-wide and has been profiled in numerous newspapers (Link to ref: guardian profile). She has a clinical practise seeing individuals and couples in London.

Her first book Fat is a Feminist Issue brought the problems of womens' relationships to their bodies and their eating, to public conciousness and proposed new theory on ways to help. Her other books addressing food and the body are Fat is a Feminist Issue II, Hunger Strike, On Eating and her latest book Bodies. In Bodies, she proposes new theory on how we acquire a bodily sense of self. The book includes case studies of amputees and children who have been fostered or adopted and offers a critique of the beauty, diet, style and pharmaceutical industries as well as current thinking on the obesity crisis.

Another important area of her work relates to the dynamics in relationships. What do Women Want (written with Luise Eichenbaum), discusses the dynamics in relationships, especially heterosexual ones, and explores issues of dependance and the impact of the mother/daughter, mother/son relationship on an adult's sense of self. In this book Susie & Luise lay the foundations for more emotionally demcratic inimate relationships. Bittersweet, now re-titled Between Women, (also writtenwith Luise Eichenbaum) focuses on friendships, relationships at work and love affairs, between women. In it Susie and Luise describe the merged attachemtns that can occur between women & the struggle to achieve seperated attachement. In Understanding Women, Susie and Luise theorize womens sycology from the perspective of their work at the Women's Therapy Centre and introduce the concept of 'the little girl inside'. The Impossiblity of Sex is a collcetion of imagined stories from therapy, written from the perspective of the therapist. THe stories are interwoven with theory anda discussion of the key psychological concepts, as wella s a frank discussion of the therapist's experience. Although these are imagined cases, they tell a truth about the experiecne of being a therapist.

For 10 years Susie Orbach had a column inthe Guardian newspaper on emotions in public nad private life. These have been compiled in 2 volumes: What's Really Going on Here and Towards Emotional Literacy.

Books by Susie Orbach

Bodies 2009

On Eating 2002

The Impossibility of Sex 1999

Towards Emotional Literacy 1999

What’s Really Going on Here 1995

Bittersweet: Love, Competition & Envy in Women's Friendships 1987, released as Between Women in US (written with Luise Eichenbaum) Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for Our Time 1986

What Do Women Want? Exploding the Myth of Dependency l983 (written with Luise Eichenbaum)

Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach l983 (written with Luise Eichenbaum)

Fat is a Feminist Issue II l982

Fat is a Feminist Issue l978

References Andrew Samuels oration on Susie Orbach being made Doctor of Essex University in 2004 http://www.essex.ac.uk/vc/orate2004/susie-orbach-oration.shtm