Professor Joan Raphael-Leff is both a Psychoanalyst (Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society) and Transcultural Psychologist. She leads the Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research at the Anna Freud Centre, London. In 1998 she founded COWAP, IPA’s committee on Women & Psycho-analysis. Previously was director of the MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology at University College London and Professor of Psychoanalysis at Essex University, UK.
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For 45 years she specialised in clinical issues of Reproduction and Early Parenting; Advisor to the UK Association of Infant Mental Health and to UK Government’s ‘1001 crucial days’ project. Consultant to perinatal and women’s projects in many different countries where she regularly travels to lecture and supervise. Her writings (150 single authored peer-reviewed publications, including 12 books) are translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Flemish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.