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Susie Orbach
Shows readers how to think and feel differently about what they eat. This book contains statements which help to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms.
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Worldwide, increasingly large numbers of people are seeing therapists on a regular basis. In the UK alone, 1.5 million people are in therapy. We go to address past traumas, to…
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An esteemed psychologist examines how cultural forces have conspired to bring about a crisis in the way people experience their bodies. Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and…
In this classic text, originally published in 1986, The author brilliantly examines the anorectic’s struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus…
In these intriguing accounts, The author, the celebrated author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, presents us with six imaginary clinical cases, including Adam, the serial seducer; Belle, the compulsive…
This book provides provocative evidence for a different way of conceptualizing sexuality and the erotic for women today. It conveys the challenges met with patients-on-the-page, explaining show what might go…
We may be the last generation to inhabit bodies not routinely reconstructed by surgical enhancements. Over the last decades, our body has become an individual statement and a crucial personal…
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THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK - in one volume together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and…
* The first collection of the highly successful GUARDIAN columns by Susie Orbach, one of Britain’s best known psychotherapists
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In this, the second collection of her Guardian columns, Susie Orbach again proves herself to be a clear-sighted and intelligent guide to understanding what’s really going on around and within…
In this new and updated edition of the groundbreaking In Therapy, world-renowned therapist Susie Orbach reveals what really goes on in therapy.
This book examines the anorectic’s struggle. It provides the background for the case studies and vignettes, and suggests a new treatment protocol for anorexia. The book also provides an explanation…
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Graeme Galton,Susie Orbach
For the first time, the controversial issue of physical contact in the consulting room is explored by distinguished psychoanalysts and psychotherapists representing a diverse range of psychoanalytic viewpoints.
Lisa Appignanesi,Susie Orbach,Rachel Holmes
The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them.
Childhood today is big business. It is impossible for any child growing up to avoid intense marketing and research shows that these commercial pressures affect children’s health and wellbeing. Featuring…
