The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psy….

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated..

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist..

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem fro….

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't ….

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune ….

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim..

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue..

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect..

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper ….

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'..

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness..

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to dr….

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, ….

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with….

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation..

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt..

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old ki….

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the productio….

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - ….

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style..