1st Edition
The Impossibility of Sex Stories of the Intimate Relationship between Therapist and Client
By Susie Orbach
Copyright 1999
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book I have struggled with certain words without a satisfactory conclusion. I am unhappy about all the words used to describe the person who visits the therapist's consulting room. Is she or he a patient? Well, sometimes yes. Certain individuals like that word because it captures for them the sense that there is something wrong, an emotional illness. Is she or he a client? Again, sometimes... Read more
A Room with a View -- The Vampire Casanova -- Belle -- Footsteps in the Dark -- Fat is a . . . Issue -- Two Parts Innocent: Two Parts Wise -- The Impossibility of Sex -- And So -- Reflections and Questions -- Thanks
Biography
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre and Antidote, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' (1978), 'Hunger Strike' (1986), 'The Impossibility of Sex' (1999), and 'On Eating' (2002).
