Susie Orbach
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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer
Writer
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, and social critic from London
London
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, UK.

Background

Orbach was born in London, in 1946, and was brought up in Chalk Farm, north London, the child of Jewish parents, British MP (Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

) Maurice Orbach
Maurice Orbach
Maurice Orbach was a British Labour Party politician.-Life:Orbach was born to a Jewish family.Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University...

 and an American mother (who was a teacher). She won a scholarship to North London Collegiate School
North London Collegiate School
North London Collegiate School is an independent day school for girls founded in 1850 in Camden Town, and now in the London Borough of Harrow.The Good Schools Guide called the school an "Academically stunning outer London school in a glorious setting which, in 2003, demonstrated its refusal to rest...

, and attended until she was 15.

Career

With Luise Eichenbaum, Orbach created the Women’s Therapy Centre in 1976 and the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York, in 1981. She has been a consultant for The World Bank, the NHS
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

 and Unilever
Unilever
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 and was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
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.

Scholarship

Orbach has been a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 for 10 years. She is currently chair of the Relational School in the UK.
Orbach is a convener of Anybody (http://www.any-body.org), an organization that campaigns for body diversity. She is a co-founder and board member of Antidote, which works for emotional literacy. Orbach is also a co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility. She lectures and broadcasts extensively world-wide and has been profiled in numerous newspapers, such as The Guardian.

Family

Orbach's relationship with Joseph Schwartz, the father of her two children, ended after more than 30 years. According to writer Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson...

, now her partner, Orbach "calls herself post-heterosexual".

Orbach's extended family includes James Rossant
James Rossant
James Stephan Rossant was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture. A long-time Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is best known for his master plan of Reston, Virginia, the Lower Manhattan Plan, and the UN-sponsored master plan for Dodoma, Tanzania...

 and Juliette Rossant
Juliette Rossant
Juliette Rossant is an American author, journalist, and poet, best known for her writings about top-grossing celebrity chefs about whom she first wrote for Forbes magazine and for whom she has defined the term Super Chef, also the title of her first book and of her online magazine.- Background...

.

Journalism

For 10 years Susie Orbach had a column in The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

on emotions in public and private life. These have been compiled into two volumes: What's Really Going on Here and Towards Emotional Literacy. She still writes for newspapers and magazines and campaigns vigorously on many fronts.

Books

  • Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978)
  • Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982)
  • Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach (1983) (written with Luise Eichenbaum)
  • What Do Women Want? Exploding the Myth of Dependency (1983) (written with Luise Eichenbaum)
  • Hunger Strike: The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for Our Time (1986)
  • Bittersweet: Love, Competition & Envy in Women's Friendships (1987), published as Between Women in US (written with Luise Eichenbaum)
  • What’s Really Going on Here (1995)
  • Towards Emotional Literacy (1999)
  • The Impossibility of Sex (1999)
  • On Eating (2002)
  • Bodies (2009)

External links

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