Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, Psychoanalyst (Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society) and Social Psychologist, is Leader of the UCL/Anna Freud Centre Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research. Previously Head of UCL's MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, and Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, she specialises in reproductive and parenting issues (8 books and 100 single-author publications in this field). She is a consultant to perinatal projects in many different countries.