If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

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.

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.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.