Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist. Her books include Fat is a Feminist Issue, Hunger Strike, What’s Really Going on Here, Towards Emotional Literacy and The Impossibility of Sex. With Luise Eichenbaum she has written Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Acccount, What Do Women Want: Exploding the Myth of Dependency and Between Women. She is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.