Susie Orbach
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| Born |
6 November 1946 London |
| Occupation | psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer, and social critic |
| Spouse | Jeanette Winterson |
| Children | son, daughter |
| Relatives | Maurice Orbach, Ruth Hubsch (parents) |
Susie Orbach (born 6 November 1946) is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her 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. She is married to the author Jeanette Winterson.
Orbach was born in London in 1946 into a Jewish family, and was brought up in Chalk Farm, north London. Her mother was an American teacher, and her father the British Labour MPMaurice Orbach. She won a scholarship to North London Collegiate School, and attended until she was 15.
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 and Unilever and was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
Susie is also a member of the steering group for the Campaign for Body Confidence, co-founded by Lynne Featherstone and Jo Swinson in March 2010.
Orbach has been a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and was Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics for ten years. She was chair of the Relational School in the UK. Orbach is a convener of Anybody, an organisation 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.
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