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Joan Raphael-Leff has for four decades engaged in prolific academic, clinical, and international outreach activities supporting and nurturing interest in women's psychology across the field of mental health. The innovative founder in 1998 of the IPA's Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis, she is a Middle Group London psychoanalyst, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a social psychologist who currently leads the University College London / Anna Freud Centre Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research. From 1997 to she was Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and recently was a director of the Freud Museum in London. She has written or edited many well-known and beloved books, many of which she draws on in this present volume, including Pregnancy: The Inside Story (1993), Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss and Breakdown (2000), and Parent-Infant Dynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts (2003).
The book reviewed here is a large-format glossy paperback, handsomely produced, community-minded, and psychoanalytically very intelligent. Raphael-Leff says it is meant as a “bedside book” (as opposed to “a