Dr. Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. She is the co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre of London and the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in New York. She was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
Also can we just take a second for the fact that today’s guest was once-counselor to Princess Diana, for treatment of her eating disorder. Yes THE Princess Diana. The New York Times has said, “aside from Sigmund Freud, [Dr. Susie Orbach is] probably the most famous psychotherapist to have ever set up couch in Britain.”
DR. SUSIE ORBACH’S BOOKS:
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
Bodies
What Do Women Want?: Exploding the Myth of Dependency
On Eating
Hunger Strike
The Impossibility of Sex
Towards Emotional Literacy
What’s Really Going on Here?
IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:
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Kavanaugh VS. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford & the push against patriarchy
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The limitations women face in the culture and how it’s manifested into our bodies
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The socially acceptable roles for women (care taker, mother), breed guilt for focusing on the self (lose touch with own needs).
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How we become disconnected from our own appetites, desires, and wants
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The critical period for “body acquisition”
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Masculine & feminine behavioral roles in society – what’s accepted?
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Body exploitation and body instability
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The relationship we have with our body depends on the quality of attachment to our caregiver
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Developing femininity & how we are often defined by affiliation with another
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The acceptance of inter-dependency (without shame or guilt) & the vulnerability that comes with receiving help
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The effects of “turbo charged capitalism”
- How beauty is unattainable while simultaneously something that is expected to be maintained.
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The generational shifts in feminism – Individualistic society’s vs. collaborative
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Steps we can take to restore our sense of self
- The power of community and friendship
BOOKS MENTIONED:
CONNECT WITH SUSIE:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/psychoanalysis/media
Website: https://www.endangeredbodies.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Susie-Orbach/465890970286168
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