{"id":3470,"date":"2018-01-31T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freud.org.uk\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2018-08-13T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:35:40","slug":"freuds-women-lisa-appignanesi-in-conversation-with-susie-orbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freud.org.uk\/2018\/01\/31\/freuds-women-lisa-appignanesi-in-conversation-with-susie-orbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Freud\u2019s Women Lisa Appignanesi in conversation with Susie Orbach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Despite Freud\u2019s traditional views on women, psychoanalysis was one of the first professions to open its doors to them. Feminists past and present may have contested Freud\u2019s ever-changing understandings of femininity. They have also elaborated on them.<\/p>\n
In this discussion, Lisa Appignanesi co-author of the now classic Freud\u2019s Women<\/em> and psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, founder of the Women\u2019s Therapy Centre and author of that perennial bestseller Fat is A Feminist Issue<\/em> explore what women past and present have contributed to psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n Freud’s Women is held in conjunction with the Freud Museum London’s winter exhibition, So This is the Strong Sex, Early Women Psychoanalysts.<\/em><\/p>\n Lisa Appignanesi<\/strong> is Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and the Man Booker International Prize. Her many books include Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors<\/em> and Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness<\/em>.<\/p>\n Susie Orbach<\/strong> is a leading psychoanalyst. Amongst her many books are Bodies<\/em> and In Therapy<\/em>. Founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre and the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, Susie has recently received the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Psychoanalytic Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite Freud\u2019s traditional views on women, psychoanalysis was one of the first professions to open its doors to them. Feminists past and present may have contested Freud\u2019s ever-changing understandings of femininity. They have also elaborated on them. In this discussion, Lisa Appignanesi co-author of the now classic Freud\u2019s Women and psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, founder of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAbout the speakers:<\/h3>\n