Susie Orbach was born on 6 November 1946 and is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic.
19 Facts About Susie Orbach
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Susie Orbach's first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance.
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Susie Orbach is honoured in BBC'S 100 Women in 2013 and 2014.
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Susie Orbach was the therapist to Diana, Princess of Wales during the 1990s.
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Susie Orbach's mother was an American teacher, and her father the British Labour MP Maurice Orbach.
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Susie Orbach won a scholarship to North London Collegiate School.
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Susie Orbach has been a consultant for The World Bank, the NHS and Unilever and was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
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Susie Orbach is member of the steering group for the Campaign for Body Confidence, co-founded by Lynne Featherstone and Jo Swinson in March 2010.
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Susie Orbach has been a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and for 10 years was visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
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Susie Orbach was chair of the Relational School in the UK.
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Susie Orbach is a convener of Anybody, an organisation that campaigns for body diversity.
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Susie Orbach is a co-founder and board member of Antidote, which works for emotional literacy.
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Susie Orbach is a co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility.
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Susie Orbach has a clinical practice and sees both individuals and couples in London.
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Susie Orbach's first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, brought the problems of women's relationships to their bodies and their eating to public consciousness.
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Susie Orbach's other books addressing food and the body are Fat is a Feminist Issue II, Hunger Strike, On Eating and her latest book Bodies.
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Susie Orbach saw the female false body in particular as built upon identifications with others, at the cost of an inner sense of authenticity and reliability.
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For 10 years Susie Orbach had a column in The Guardian on emotions in public and private life.
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Susie Orbach still writes for newspapers and magazines and campaigns vigorously on many fronts.