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Susie Orbach on Gloria Steinem’s legacy and why it’s our job to maintain it
In a recent piece published by The Independent, psychoanalyst and author Susie Orbach reflects on the life, work, and enduring legacy of Gloria Steinem.
In The Heat Together: Couples in the Kitchen
Chaired by psychotherapist Susie Orbach, "In the Heat Together" examines collaboration under pressure, affection and rivalry, balancing creativity and commerce, and emotional labour in relationships and restaurants.
In Conversation with Susie Orbach
Join Susie Orbach for an evening on 50 years of thinking, writing and campaigning about food, bodies, identity, therapy and power.
Leading and Working from the Screen
Explore visible and invisible dynamics in remote work in this fully online, three-day experiential programme (optional fourth day), led by Dr Sarah Wynick and Tavistock Institute colleagues.
Weight-loss drugs do nothing to address the troubled relationships we have with our bodies
Fifty years ago, I started thinking about the demand for women to look a certain way and the rebellions against the narrow ways in which we were supposed to display (and not display) our bodies. Today, a new kind of troubled eating is stalking the land, entirely induced by the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs produced by pharmaceutical companies and promoted by their willing agents on social media.
The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive
A clinical exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) that Amy Levy renames “alien intelligence”, a phrase coined by Yuval Noah Harari to demonstrate that this creation is not an artefact, but a new being. Levy contends with this new “other” threatening to supplant human mentation and offers an analysis of our uniquely human drive to innovate.
Book Launch: How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?
This book was published two years on from 7 October 2023, by a group of twelve child psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists who all trained at the Tavistock Clinic (including The Baltint Consultancy’s Dr Sarah Wynick). It follows their fortnightly meetings to discuss the insurmountable difficulties of the Palestine-Israel conflict and their feelings about the unfolding catastrophe.
How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?
One group of twelve child psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists - with the welfare of children very much in mind - met fortnightly to discuss the insurmountable difficulties of the Palestine-Israel conflict and their feelings about the catastrophe streaming on their media.