Bodies by Susie Orbach

Bodies by Susie Orbach

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. This book raises the fundamental questions about how we arrived here and proposes a fresh theory on how we became embodied.

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 Times *
This is a serious book - and one of the saddest I've read in a long time. It is grounded in compassion, righteous anger and practical good sense ... I came away having learnt something. We are at war with our own bodies, and both sides are losing. * Daily Mail *
A terrifying, terrific read * Scotland on Sunday *
Could make you rethink starting that post-Christmas diet. A 2010 must-have if you want to understand your body issues. * Now *
Original in her diagnoses and sympathetic in her treatment, she comes across as the intellectual lovechild of Freud and Trisha. How could this not be compulsive reading? -- Laura Silverman * Daily Mail *
Combining heartfelt polemic with heartbreaking case studies, Bodies unpicks the tangle of influences that conspire against a "stable body" -- Victoria Segal * Guardian *
[A] superb analysis of the range of ways one can change one's body and the number of images of the body one encounters. -- Lesley McDowell * Herald [Glasgow] *

Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst and writer. She co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in 1976 and is the author of many books including Fat is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike, On Eating, The Impossibility of Sex and Bodies. Susie has a clinical practise seeing individuals and couples. Find her on Twitter @psychoanalysis

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ISBN 13	9781846680298
ISBN 10	1846680298
Title	Bodies
Author	Susie Orbach
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2010-01-07
Number of pages	192
Prizes	Winner of Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award 2010 (United States), Long-listed for Foyles/Bristol Festival of Ideas Best Book of Ideas 2010 (UK)
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