 Bodies – a measure of our worth?
Susie Orbach is one of Britain’s most famous psychotherapists and the author of the groundbreaking Fat Is a Feminist Issue. Some thirty years after its publication, Susie argues that the way we view our bodies has become the mirror of how we view ourselves – our body has now become the measure of our worth. In her new book Bodies, she draws on developments in psychology, neuroscience and her own experience as a psychotherapist to unpick the relationship between our internal and external worlds, our physical and emotional experiences. She warns that we have entered 'a new epoch of body destabilisation', our bodies are no longer born, they are works in progress. Jane asks her about the price we are paying for the pursuit of perfection, how anxieties about our bodies are passed down through the generations, and how to escape the influences of 'the merchants of body hatred'.
Bodies by Susie Orbach is published by Profile Books, ISBN 9781846680199 |
