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| Born | 1946 UK |
| Occupation | psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer, and social critic |
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer, and social critic from London, UK.
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Orbach was born in London, in 1946, and was brought up in Chalk Farm, north London, the child of Jewish parents,[1] British MP (Labour) Maurice Orbach and an American mother (who was a teacher). She won a scholarship to North London Collegiate School, and attended until she was 15.[1][2]
With Luise Eichenbaum, Orbach created the Women’s Therapy Centre in 1976 and the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York, in 1981. She has been a consultant for The World Bank, the NHS and Unilever and was co-originator of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.
Orbach has been a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics for 10 years. She is currently chair of the Relational School in the UK. Orbach is a convener of Anybody (http://www.any-body.org), an organization that campaigns for body diversity. She is a co-founder[3] and board member[4] of Antidote, which works for emotional literacy. Orbach is also a co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility.[5] She lectures and broadcasts extensively world-wide and has been profiled in numerous newspapers, such as The Guardian.[6]
Orbach has a clinical practice and sees both individuals and couples in London.
Orbach's relationship with Joseph Schwartz, the father of her two children, ended after more than 30 years. According to writer Jeanette Winterson, now her partner, Orbach "calls herself post-heterosexual".[7]
Orbach's extended family includes James Rossant and Juliette Rossant.
For 10 years Susie Orbach had a column in The Guardian on emotions in public and private life. These have been compiled into two volumes: What's Really Going on Here and Towards Emotional Literacy. She still writes for newspapers and magazines and campaigns vigorously on many fronts.