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Susie Orbach [1946-0] English

Rank: 103
Psychologist, Psychotherapist

Susie Orbach is 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.

Diet, Failure, Relationship

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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.		101
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.		102
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.	Failure	103
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.		104
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.		105
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.	Relationship	106
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.		107
I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.		108
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.		109
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.		110
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.		111
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.		112
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?		113
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.		114
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.		115
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.		116
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.		117
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.		118
In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?		119
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.		120
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.	Diet	121
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.		122
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.		123
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.		124
The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.		125
I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.		126
In general, the Western body has become a global brand.		201
If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.		202
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.		203
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.		204
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.		205
Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.		206
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.		207
The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.		208
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.		209
Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.		210
'Skinny' is only one body type.		211

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