Arnold Richards Explained

Arnold Richards
Occupation:	Psychoanalyst
Spouse:	Arlene Kramer Richards
Website:	Official website

Arnold Richards (born August 1934) is a psychoanalyst and former editor of The American Psychoanalyst and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA).^{[1] [2] [3]} Richards also is the Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.^[4] He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Psychoanalysis.net magazine.^[5] Richards is a board member and former chair of YIVO.^[6]

Career

Richards became an editor for The American Psychoanalyst in 1989.^[7] He redesigned the format and content of the newsletter during his term as editor.^[7] From 1994 to 2003, Richards was an editor for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA).^{[2] [4] [8]} He is a faculty member of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Metropolitan Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.^[9] Richards presented the 50th annual Leo Baeck Memorial lecture in 2006.^[10] In 2014, he participated in the Senior Sino-American Continual Training Project of Psychoanalysis.^[11]

Writing and research

He presented "A.A. Brill: The Politics of Exclusion and the Politics of Pluralism" in November 1995.^[12] He presented "The Organizational Structure of the American Psychoanalytic Association: The Politics of Exclusion" at the 37th annual conference of the International Psychohistorical Association in June 2014.^[13]

Awards and recognition

Richards received the Mary S. Sigourney Award in 2000.^[4] He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and received its Distinguished Contributor Award in 2004.^{[4] [14]} In 2013, Richards received the Hans W. Loewald award.^[15]

Personal life

Richards' parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe; his father was from Podolia and his mother was from Galicia.^[16] Richards grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a Yiddish and English speaking household.

Richards is married to Arlene Kramer Richards, a practicing psychoanalyst, and lives in an apartment in Manhattan and a condo in Palm Beach, Florida.^[17]

Bibliography

• Psychoanalysis: The Science of Mental Conflict - Essays in Honor of Charles Brenner (1986)
• Fantasy, Myth, and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob A. Arlow (1988)
• The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Martin S. Bergmann (1994)
• The Perverse Transference and Other Matters: Essays in Honor of R. Horacio Etchegoyen (1997)
• Psychology of Women: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2000)
• The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity (2010)

Selected publications

• 2013 Letter to the Editor re Paper by James Anderson, Clio’s Psyche 19(4) 486-388. http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2013/10/15/letter-to-the-editor-response-to-jim-anderson-by-arnold-richards/
• 2014 APM Paper in The Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2013/05/10/apm-paper-by-arnold-richards/
• 2013 Book Essay on The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action Arnold D. Richards Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Volume 61(1): pp. 157–165.
• 2013.  Freud's Free Clinics: A Tale of Two Continents. The Psychoanalytic Review Vol. 100, No. 6, pp. 819–838.
• 2014 A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement by Hans Reijzer Reviewed Arnold D. Richards in (2014). The Psychoanalytic Review Vol. 101, No. 6, pp. 925–938.
• 2015 What is Jewish about Psychoanalysis? A review of Hans Reijzer’s A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement  Clio’s Psyche. In Press
• 2014 Freud’s Jewish identity and Psychoanalysis as a Science. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 62:987-1003.
• 2014) A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement. By Hans Reijzer. London: Karnac Books, 2011, 236 pp. £9.99 (paperback).. Psychoanal. Rev., 101(6):931-938.
• 2015. Psychoanalysis in Crisis: The Danger of Ideology. Psychoanalytic Review 102(3):389-405.
• 2018. A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud's Knowledge and use of British and American Writings: By S. S. Prawer. Abingdon, UK / New York: Modern Humanities Research Association / Routledge, 2009. 156 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 87(2):383-387.
• 2018. Dreams and the Wish for Immortality. Canadian Journal Psychoanalysis 26(1):142-158.
• 2018. Some Thoughts on Self-Disclosure. Psychoanalytic Review 105(2):137-156.
• 2020 The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis, by Kenneth Eisold. Routledge, New York, 2018, 262 pp.. Psychodynamic Psychology, 48(2):201-211.
• 2020. The Organizational Structure of the American Psychoanalytic Association: The Politics of Exclusion. Psychoanalytic Review 107(3):211-227.
• References

Sources

Richards, A. (2017). Psychoanalysis in Crisis: Art, Science or Ideology? JASPER, vol. 1, # 1, pp. 43–59.

Notes and References

1. Web site: When Your Mouth Betrays You: The Science and Psychology Behind Slips. March 19, 2012. Sydney Levin. . December 7, 2014.
2. News: Putting Up With It Is One Thing, Inflicting It Quite Another. April 18, 1999. Eric V. Copage.
3. Edith Kurzweil. One Hundred Years of Seductions. 65. 2.
4. Web site: Arnold D. Richards, M.D.. https://archive.today/20141207165044/http://www.sigourneyaward.org/arnold-d-richards-m-d/. dead. December 7, 2014. December 7, 2014.
5. Freud's Free Clinics: A Tale of Two Continents. 2013. 10.1521/prev.2013.100.6.819. December 7, 2014. Richards. Arnold. The Psychoanalytic Review. 100. 6. 819–838. 24325182.
6. Web site: Writing as Roots . December 7, 2014 .
7. Web site: The American Psychoanalytic Association History . https://archive.today/20141207165120/http://www.apsa.org/Publications/The_American_Psychoanalyst/History.aspx . dead . December 7, 2014 . December 7, 2014 .
8. Web site: The Analyst's Personality: Impact on the Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique. December 7, 2014.
9. Web site: Helping the Patient Look Deeper When the Patient Wants to Stay on the Surface. December 7, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141127130533/http://www.mitpp.com/events/events.php. November 27, 2014. dead.
10. Web site: Leo Baeck Memorial Lectures. December 7, 2014.
11. Web site: Arnold Richards in China: On Countertransference, 2014. May 28, 2014. December 7, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305080508/http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2014/05/28/arnold-richards-in-china-on-countertransference-2014/. March 5, 2016. dead.
12. Web site: Brill memorial lectures. December 7, 2014.
13. Web site: The Organizational Structure of the American Psychoanalytic Association: The Politics of Exclusion by Arnold Richards. June 4, 2014. December 7, 2014.
14. Web site: Transference and Countertransference with Arnold Richards at MITTP. October 1, 2014. December 7, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210350/http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2014/10/01/transference-and-countertransference-with-arnold-richards-at-mittp/. March 4, 2016. dead.
15. Web site: Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award. December 7, 2014.
16. Web site: Arnold Richards Yiddish Book Center. www.yiddishbookcenter.org. 2020-03-08.
17. Book: Salman Akhtar. Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts. 2012.