Pregnancy: The Inside Story
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2001
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 224
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 2505
- ISBN 13 : 9781855752573
- ISBN 10 : 1855752573
About the Author(s)
Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD, psychoanalyst (fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society) and social psychologist, 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 twelve books. Founder and first international chair of COWAP (IPA's Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis) in 1998, she provides training for practitioners working with teenage parents, and is consultant to perinatal and women's projects in many high and low income countries.