An online monthly meeting of diverse creative presentations from the greater psychoanalytic community.
Thursday, June 1st, 2023, 1:30-3:00pm/Eastern time
My Life in Prose and Poetry with Arnold Richards, MD
Arnold Richards’ personal writing reflects his life beginning with his family roots and losses in Eastern Europe, his Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn in the 1930’s and his analytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Daniel Benveniste, PhD, describes Richards’ career of literary, professorial, editorial and political activism as lived by a “psychoanalytic guerrilla warrior.” He has worked creatively in the trenches offering psychotherapy behind prison walls; offering crisis counseling for 9/11 survivors; and as a pioneer in the People’s Republic of China, providing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. We look forward to his presentation and a discussion with this dynamic innovator, integrator and critical thinker.
Arnold Richards, MD, was Editor of JAPA from 1994-2003. Prior to that he was Editor of TAP. He is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and an honorary member of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. He published a series of five volumes of his selected papers, Volume I: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations, Volume 2: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Volume 3: The Psychoanalyst at Work, Volume 4: The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst, and Volume 5: The World of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts. He is also writing a memoir, Unorthodox: My Life in Psychoanalysis, and he has co-edited four books. Dr. Richards is the publisher of internationalpsychoanalysis.net
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, are the Artist Study Group Co-Directors