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With the participation of Dr Sarah Wynick

How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?

Couples in the Kitchen

Chaired by renowned psychotherapist Susie Orbach, they explore the psychology of collaboration under pressure, the unique dynamics of affection and rivalry, the balancing of creative vision with commercial survival, and the emotional labour required to keep relationships – and restaurants – thriving.

https://events.bl.uk/events/in-the-heat-together-couples-in-the-kitchen

Saturday, 13th June 2.30pm- 3.30pm

Piggot Theatre , British Library, London

• Susie Orbach is passionate about food and people enjoying it.MoreShe is a psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Centre in London and The Women’s Therapy Centre in New York. As a psychotherapist she has worked with many people whose relish has been thwarted by the culture dictates about bodies and size and she has written widely on the sorrows of eating difficulties. As a psychoanalyst she has a practice seeing individuals and couples about which she has also written. Her books include Fat is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike, What’s Really Going on Here?, Towards Emotional Literacy, Susie Orbach on Eating and The Impossibility of Sex.

Join renowned psychotherapist, author and activist Susie Orbach.

Mon, 16 Mar, 5:00 pm.

Fyvie Hall

309 Regent Street London W1B 2HT

Free

In Conversation with Susie Orbach

Join renowned psychotherapist, author and activist Susie Orbach (recipient of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Westminster) for a stimulating evening exploring 50 years of thinking, writing and campaigning on food, bodies, identity, therapy and power. She will be joined in conversation by psychotherapist and social scientist Professor Damien Ridge, and sociologist Dr Alison Fixsen.

From her groundbreaking Fat is a Feminist book to her recent book Bodies, Susie’s work bridges clinical practice, feminist theory, cultural analysis and public debate. As a psychotherapist, she has brought psychoanalytic insights to lived bodily experience; as a writer and media commentator, she has shaped public understanding of body image, health and inequality; and as a founder member of AnyBody UK, she continues to campaign for body diversity and social change.

Topics discussed will include Susie’s work across therapeutic, academic and public domains; bodies as sites of power, control and resistance; tensions between health, morality and appearance; the challenges posed by contemporary diet, wellness and media cultures; facing the current moment in politics; and future directions for body politics in scholarship; advice for clinicians, researchers and activists.

The evening will conclude with audience questions and open discussion.

Academics, students, practitioners and members of the general public are warmly welcome.

The event is free. Tickets at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-susie-orbach-tickets-1981416110926?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Dr Sarah Wynick

https://tavinstitute.org/professional-development/leading-from-the-screen

Freud: Goodnight Vienna – on Legacy Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/freud-goodnight-vienna/id1798339890?i=1000704534699

After his beloved daughter, Anna, is taken by the Gestapo, Freud is finally persuaded to leave Vienna. He arrives in England to a rapturous welcome and starts seeing patients. Tragically though, his illness catches up with him and he dies just before WWII breaks out.

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.