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

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

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.

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

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

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