Despite Freud’s 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’s ever-changing understandings of femininity. They have also elaborated on them. In this discussion, Lisa Appignanesi co-author of the now classicFreud’s Womenand psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre and author of that perennial bestsellerFat is A Feminist Issueexplore what women past and present have contributed to psychoanalysis. Freud's Womenis held in conjunction with the Freud Museum London's winter exhibition,So This is the Strong Sex, Early Women Psychoanalysts. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Lisa Appignanesiis Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and the Man Booker International Prize. Her many books includeMad, Bad and Sad: A History of Womenand the Mind DoctorsandTrials of Passion: Crimes