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BODIES by ORBACH SUSIE
Category: Culture
Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the way toward a process of healing.Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their bodies. Here Susie Orbach ...Show more
Bodies by Susie Orbach
Category: Politics
'A smart and rich compendium of what is going on within and without our bodies today ... in this brave and significant book, Orbach does battle with a full quiver of her own fire-tipped arrows, her blazing firebrand levelled at self-hatred in all its forms.' the TimesIn the past decades, the pressure to ...Show more
Bodies by Susie Orbach
Category: Politics | Series: Big Ideas
In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Men are encouraged to surgically pump up their pecs, breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, and eating problems - from bulimia to obesity - are growing daily, affecting c ...Show more
Exploiting Childhood - How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture Are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse by James Hawes (Contribution by); Oliver James (Foreword by); Liz Kelly (Contribution by); Tim Lobstein (Contribution by); Agnes Nairne (Contribution by); Susie Orbach (Contribution by); Renata Salecl (Contribution by); Wayne Warburton (Contribution by); Jim Wild (Editor); Stephen Haff (Contribution by); Adam Barnard (Contribution by); Camila Batmanghelidjh (Foreword by); Stephen D. Brookfield (Contribution by); Maddy Coy (Contribution by); Gail Dines (Contribution by); Sharon Girling (Contribution by)
Category: Parenting
Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them? Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting in childh ...Show more
Fat Is A Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
Category: Culture
This is 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 it is as relevant today as it was then. Updated throughout, it includes a frank new introduction by Susie Orbach that brin ...Show more
Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
Category: Culture
Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society, Susie Orbach's new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women want to be sexy, nurturing, domestic goddesses, confident at work - an equal to thei ...Show more
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes
Category: Languages and Reference
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink? In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, ac ...Show more
Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age by Susie Orbach
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It is also about control; by conquering feelings of hunger, the anorectic woman aspires to conquer her emoti ...Show more
In Therapy: How Conversations with Psychotherapists Really Work by Susie Orbach
Category: Personal Development
In the UK alone, 1.5 million people are in therapy. They go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because they need to find out more about what makes them tick. Susie Orbach, the bestselling author of Fa ...Show more
In Therapy: The Unfolding Story by Susie Orbach
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Worldwide, an increasingly diverse and growing number of people are seeking therapy. We go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because we want to find out more about ourselves. Susie Orbach has been a ...Show more
Towards Emotional Literacy by Susie Orbach
Category: Culture
Emotional literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling so that it enhances rather than interferes with thinking - a contrast with emotional expression which can mean one is driven by emotions so that it isn't possible to think.' In this, the second collection of her Guardian columns (one ...Show more
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