There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

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

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.

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.

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