ABSTRACT

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist arid writer. With Luise Eichenbaum she co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976 and in 1981 The Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. She lectures extensively in Europe and North America, is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organizations. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, as well as to radio and television programmes. Her other books on eating problems are Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978), Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982) and On Eating (2002). With Luise Eichenbaum she has written Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Account (1982), What do Women Want (1983) and Between Women (1988). She is also the author of What's Really Going on Here (1993), Towards Emotional Literacy (1999) and The Impossibility of Sex (1999).

part |96 pages

Part I

chapter 1|9 pages

Anorexia: Metaphor for our Time

chapter 2|19 pages

Situating Anorexia

chapter 3|20 pages

Starving Amidst Plenty

chapter 4|27 pages

The Breeding of Body Insecurity

chapter 5|19 pages

Hunger Strike

part |76 pages

Part II

chapter 7|7 pages

Bridging the Chasm

chapter 8|15 pages

Food: From Poison to Palatable

chapter 10|20 pages

Behind the Defence

chapter 11|12 pages

Medical Issues