Dr. Rhona Rapoport received her Ph.D. degree sociology from the London School of Economics and then trained as a psychoanalyst at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis. For twenty years, she was a consultant to the Ford Foundation developing programs on work and family issues. Currently, she is director of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research, a nonprofit educational trust located in London. She has written several books, many with her late husband Robert Rapoport.