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.[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
Psychoanalysis: The Science of Mental Conflict - Essays in Honor of Charles Brenner (1986) ISBN9780881630541
Fantasy, Myth, and Reality: Essays in Honor of Jacob A. Arlow (1988) ISBN9780823618873
The Spectrum of Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Martin S. Bergmann (1994) ISBN9780823645053
The Perverse Transference and Other Matters: Essays in Honor of R. Horacio Etchegoyen (1997) ISBN9780765700711
Psychology of Women: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (2000) ISBN9780823655885
The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity (2010) ISBN9780786444243
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.