Susie Orbach works as a psychotherapist who is interested in bringing the understandings of the consulting room – the craft, theorising, excitements and difficulties of the work of the analyst – into the public sphere.  She finds interesting similarities between writing and analysis and has written in many different forms – from Fat is a Feminist Issue and What Do Women Want? for the mass market – to books for a rather more specialised audience such as Hunger Strike. Her publications include The Impossibility of Sex, which is a set of fictional tales about the experience of psychoanalysis from the therapist’s point of view.  She has also been a cultural commentator in The Guardian for many years.