Public Lectures

Lecture venue:

Avenue House

17 East End Road

Finchley

London N3 3QE (Map)

Lecture to start promptly at 10:45am - please note time and venue

Future speakers and dates for public lectures:

The Squiggle Foundation Public Lecture Programme 2010

2010 Madeleine Davis Memorial Lecture

“There’s no such thing as a Fetus”

Saturday 16th October 2010: 10:45-13:00

Professor Joan Raphael-Leff

If ‘home is where we start from’ – our original home is the womb. Paradoxically, revealed by technology, yet unknown, the fantasy baby tethered to the placenta is imbued with maternal representations. Every fetus is part of a symbiotic/competitive system, receiving nutrients and depositing waste products into the mother's body, which she absorbs while transmitting emotional-hormonal influences, with long-lasting effects.

Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, PhD. is a Psychoanalyst (Fellow, British Society). Over the past 35 years she has specialised in clinical practice and academic work on issues of fertility, reproduction and parenting with over 100 single-author publications and 9 books. She leads the University College London Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research at the Anna Freud Centre, where she heads a national training for practitioners working with adolescent parents.

Tickets can be purchased “at the door” on the day of the lecture.
Lecture to start promptly at 10:45am. Doors open at 10:30am
Prices: Members £5.00, non-members £15.00, Concessions £10.00 (full-time students, senior citizens, UB40s)

For further details please contact:
The Administrator, The Squiggle Foundation, 48 Hide Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 4SF. Tel: 07534 422 117. Email info@squiggle-foundation.org

Entrance Fees: Members
Squiggle finds it necessary for financial reasons to break with the Foundation's long tradition and charge our members a small fee
of £5.00 for entry to public lectures. Details of membership of the Squiggle Foundation may be found on this page or on the membership application form.

Entrance Fees: Non-members
Lecture entry for non-members remains at £15.00 full rate and concessions £10.00 (full-time students, senior citizens, UB40s).

New Venue: Avenue House, 17 East End Road, Finchley, London N3 3QE (map)

If you have any queries please do get in touch by email or phone - details on this website.

Please download the membership application form here.

For further information please contact The Squiggle Foundation on 07534 422 117 or email: info@squiggle-foundation.org