Impossibility of Sex - Stories of the Intimate Relationship Between Therapist and Client

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

In these intriguing accounts, The author, the celebrated author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, presents us with six imaginary clinical cases, including Adam, the serial seducer; Belle, the compulsive liar; and Joanne, the self-mutilator. Through them, the author presents an intriguing look into the hidden world of the consulting room.

Product details

• Authors: Susie Orbach, Orbach Susie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367328054
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32805-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Individual Psychotherapy