When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

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

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.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

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