Raphael-Leff, Joan

Joan Raphael-Leff leads the UCL/Anna Freud Centre academic faculty for psychoanalytic research. Previously, she was head of University College London s MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, and professor of psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. For 35 years she has specialized in emotional issues of reproduction and early parenting, with more than 100 single-author peer-reviewed publications, and nine books, including: "Psychological Processes of Child-bearing; Pregnancy: the Inside Story; Parent Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and