Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst and writer. With Luise Eichenbaum, she co-founded The Women’s Therapy Centre in 1976 and The Women's Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York, in 1981. Her interests as a psychotherapist and writer have centred around feminism and psychoanalysis, counter-transference, psychoanalysis and the public sphere, the construction of femininity and gender, globalization and body image and emotional literacy.

Her numerous publications include the classic, Fat is a Feminist Issue, along with such other influential texts as Hunger Strike and The Impossibility of Sex. Her latest book, Bodies, will be published in January 2009.

Susie is a Visiting Professor at LSE and Visiting Scholar at The New School for Social Research in New York and has been a consultant to the World Bank, the NHS and Unilever. She is a board member of The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, is chair of the Relational School in the UK and has a clinical practice seeing individuals and couples.

She is convenor of www.any-body.org