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

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 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.

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

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.