Susie Orbach
Psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and writer, The Balint Consultancy
I am a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and writer, and the co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre in London and New York. I look at how the issues of society are structured into the individual, and constitute how we become who we are, but holding on to the notion that we live in a society and that every relation that exists is imbued with the power relations, the unconscious desires, the longings, and the struggle for subjectivity that exists between people.
EXPs by Susie Orbach
In my discipline, we tend to look at body-based problems as being expressions of psychological distress.
Nowadays, I would say almost every person I see in therapy talks about their troubled body en passant, as though it is not something to be dealt with because it is just something you have to live with.
The commercialisation of the body hides the amount of work that we put into producing our bodies.