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Susie Orbach on Gloria Steinem’s legacy and why it’s our job to maintain it
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.

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In The Heat Together: Couples in the Kitchen
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.

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Leading and Working from the Screen
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.

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Weight-loss drugs do nothing to address the troubled relationships we have with our bodies
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.

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How to talk about Adolescence with your son, according to a therapist
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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