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]

Arnold Richards
OccupationPsychoanalyst
SpouseArlene Kramer Richards
WebsiteOfficial website

Career

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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

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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

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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

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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.[16]

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

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  • Psychoanalysis: The Science of Mental Conflict - Essays in Honor of Charles Brenner (1986) ISBN 9780881630541
  • Fantasy, Myth, and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob A. Arlow (1988) ISBN 9780823618873
  • The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Martin S. Bergmann (1994) ISBN 9780823645053
  • The Perverse Transference and Other Matters: Essays in Honor of R. Horacio Etchegoyen (1997) ISBN 9780765700711
  • Psychology of Women: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2000) ISBN 9780823655885
  • The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity (2010) ISBN 9780786444243

Selected publications

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  • 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
  1. ^ Sydney Levin (March 19, 2012). "When Your Mouth Betrays You: The Science and Psychology Behind Slips". HuffPost. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Eric V. Copage (April 18, 1999). "Putting Up With It Is One Thing, Inflicting It Quite Another".
  3. ^ Edith Kurzweil. "One Hundred Years of Seductions". 65 (2). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d "Arnold D. Richards, M.D." Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  5. ^ Richards, Arnold (2013). "Freud's Free Clinics: A Tale of Two Continents". The Psychoanalytic Review. 100 (6): 819–838. doi:10.1521/prev.2013.100.6.819. PMID 24325182. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  6. ^ "Writing as Roots" (PDF). Retrieved December 7, 2014.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ a b "The American Psychoanalytic Association History". Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  8. ^ "The Analyst's Personality: Impact on the Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique". Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  9. ^ "Helping the Patient Look Deeper When the Patient Wants to Stay on the Surface". Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  10. ^ "Leo Baeck Memorial Lectures". Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  11. ^ "Arnold Richards in China: On Countertransference, 2014". May 28, 2014. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  12. ^ "Brill memorial lectures". Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  13. ^ "The Organizational Structure of the American Psychoanalytic Association: The Politics of Exclusion by Arnold Richards". June 4, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ "Transference and Countertransference with Arnold Richards at MITTP". October 1, 2014. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  15. ^ "Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award". Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  16. ^ a b "Arnold Richards | Yiddish Book Center". www.yiddishbookcenter.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  17. ^ Salman Akhtar (2012). Between Hours: A Collection of Poems by Psychoanalysts.

Sources

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