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Susie Orbach



Dr. Susie Orbach - the therapist who treated Diana, Princess of Wales, for her eating disorders; the founder of the Women's Therapy Center of London; a former columnist for The Guardian; a visiting professor at the London School of Economics; and the author of 1978 best-seller Fat is a Feminist Issue - is, aside from Sigmund Freud, probably the most famous psychotherapist to have ever set up couch in Britain. ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 7,035 ratings · 571 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
3.69 avg rating — 2,277 ratings — published 1978 — 21 editions
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Bodies
3.70 avg rating — 1,266 ratings — published 2009
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In Therapy: How Conversatio...
3.63 avg rating — 961 ratings — 5 editions
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In Therapy: The Unfolding S...
3.72 avg rating — 590 ratings — 4 editions
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On Eating
3.72 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions
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The Impossibility of Sex: S...
3.90 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1999 — 34 editions
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What Do Women Want?
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4.04 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions
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Hunger Strike: Starving Ami...
3.87 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1986 — 19 editions
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue: Pt. 2
3.49 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions
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What's Really Going on Here?
3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”
― Susie Orbach
tags: writers
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“Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.”
― Susie Orbach
tags: courage, daringness, feminism, originality
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“I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.”
― Susie Orbach, The Impossibility of Sex: Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Patient
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