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Psychotherapist

Susie Orbach is a British psychotherapist and author renowned for her profound insights into diet culture, body image, and gender issues. Her book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' sparked widespread discussion in the 1980s, profoundly impacting contemporary diet culture.

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“We experience the wish for more perfect bodies as our own desire, as indeed it is, yet it is hard to separate out the ways bodies are seen, talked about and written about and the effect of that on our own personal perception of our own bodies and other bodies.”

Body Desire Culture Perspective Body Image

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“With the body judged externally, dismay will be rife. Success means looking younger every year, as the women in the gym seem to. Success means regulating the body: controlling hungers, desires, ageing and emissions. Success means seeing the body as a lifelong work. Success means anticipating faults - physical, medical, and aesthetic - and correcting them. But when and if the ordinary processes of the body cannot be sufficiently restraint, which of course they can't, the body becomes a source of consternation as well as failure.”

Body Self Esteem Body Image

Book:Bodies

Source: Bodies

“. . . our visual world is being transformed through an intensification of images which represent the body and parts of the body in ways that artfully convey a sense that are own bodies are seriously in need of reshaping and updating.”

Body Culture Visuals Body Image Images

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Source: Bodies

“Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.”

Inspirational Self Body Young Girl Women Involved Productions Body Image Consumed

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“Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.”

Body Perfect Becoming Missions Personal Mission

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“In general, the Western body has become a global brand.”

Body Western Brands

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“Skinny is only one body type.”

Body Type Skinny Body Types

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“The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.”

Wells Body Political Subjects Fit Discussion Intervention Insistence Overdue

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“There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.”

Body Young Young Women

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“I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.”

Needs Body Wish Treats Regard Kitchen Disagreeable Updates Renovation

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“If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Helping Body Wanted Situation Break Eating Down And Your Body Diets Famine Metabolism

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“Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.”

People Ideas Body Healthy Capable Worthy Fats Insecure Healthy Body Insecure People

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About the Author

Born: November 6, 1946
Known for: Psychotherapist
Quotes: 53

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Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for WomenRelated source material

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