There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

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

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

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.

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?

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