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Bodies: Big Ideas/Small Books
Susie Orbach
Picador
April 2009
On Sale: March 31, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0312427204
EAN: 9780312427207
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses
the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the
way toward a process of healing.Throughout the Western
world, people have come to believe that general
dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their
bodies. Here Susie Orbach explains the origins of this
condition, and examines its implications for all of us.
Challenging the Freudian view that bodily disorders
originate and progress in the mind, Orbach argues that we
should look at self-mutilation, obesity, anorexia, and
plastic surgery on their own terms, through a reading of the
body itself. Incorporating the latest research from
neuropsychology, as well as case studies from her own
practice, she traces many of these fixations back to the
relationship between mothers and babies, to anxieties that
are transferred unconsciously, at a very deep level, between
the two. Orbach reveals how vulnerable our bodies are, how
susceptible to every kind of negative stimulus--from a
nursing infant sensing a mother's discomfort to a grown man
or woman feeling inadequate because of a model on a
billboard. That vulnerability makes the stakes right now
tremendously high. In the past several decades, a
globalized media has overwhelmed us with images of an
idealized, westernized body, and conditioned us to see any
exception to that ideal as a problem. The body has become an
object, a site of production and commerce in and of itself.
Instead of our bodies making things, we now make our bodies.
Susie Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and
points the way toward healing and acceptance.
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