Books written by Susie Orbach

What Do Women Want?: Exploding the Myth of Dependency

The modern relationship is in crisis. Why? In this pioneering work, Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum pinpoint the deceptively simply question that lies at the root of all its problems and ask - what do women want?

Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach

The book discusses the process of therapy and the challenges on the therapist to exemplify a new way of working with women in psychotherapy.

Bitter Sweet: Facing Up to Feelings of Love, Envy, and Competition in Women's Friendships

Understanding Women

This is an appraisal of women's psychological development based on clinical evidence.

What Do Women Want: Exploding the Myth of Dependency

Now, with a new introduction. Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach offer compelling portraits and insightful case histories that explore dependency as a basic human need rather than a sign of weakness.

What Do Women Want?

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Between Women: Love, Envy and Competition in Women's Friendships

The authors tell us why denying these feelings produces new conflicts and distance between women. As psychotherapists they offer ways of repairing and sustaining these most important relationships.

Between Women: Facing Up to Feelings of Love, Envy and Competition in Women's Friendships

Addressing issues raised by feminists such as Naomi Wolf, Susan Faludi and Katie Roiphe, this book examines what has happened to female solidarity in contemporary society, and why feelings of envy, competition, guilt and anger threaten even ...