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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.
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.
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.
‘So sick to make money out of body distress’
“Now we can all live the lean dream – if we can afford the drugs. But I fear the true cost may prove far greater,” writes Dr Susie Orbach in her latest piece for The Observer.
The US presidents’ wives are disobliging. I think I hear some excitement
Michelle Obama and Melania Trump are refusing to be redundant women whose jobs have been to humanise and soften power.
Professor Brett Kahr & Dr Susie Orbach
How do we evaluate the legacy of the man who took us inside our own heads? Are his ideas still relevant? Psychoanalysts and Freud experts, Dr Susie Orbach and Professor Brett Kahr, join the discussion.
How to talk about Adolescence with your son, according to a therapist
Thanks to the Netflix show, many parents will be contemplating discussing incels, misogyny and porn with their teenage boys for the first time. In his latest article for GQ, psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick of The Balint Consultancy offers some advice on how to do it the right way.