English - Psychologist | November 6, 1946 -
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach
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Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
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No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
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No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
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From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
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The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.
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Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
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A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
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Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.
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Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.
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We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
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'Skinny' is only one body type.
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