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.

Skinny is only one body type.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

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

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.