Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand: Selected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards - Paperback

by Arlene Kramer Richards (Author), Nancy Goodman (Editor)

"Arlene Kramer Richards represents the essence of psychoanalysis. Any struggle with trying to define what psychoanalysis is could be resolved by traveling with Arlene as she thinks, explores the psyche, practices in her consulting room, teaches, supervises, and writes. The papers in this volume contain her breakthrough ideas and the way she conveys them to us. You find here a world of deep psychoanalytic exploration into areas of female development, creativity and poetry, compromises leading to perverseness of mind and the experience of extreme loneliness. She draws us into the world of film and the layers of the unconscious depicted in the dramas. She brings insight to areas of study with an eye to what others have been afraid to see."

-- From the Introduction to the book by Nancy Goodman

Author Biography

Arlene Kramer Richards, MD, is a psychoanalyst and a poet. She is a training and supervising analyst with the New York Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association and Fellow of IPTAR. She is currently faculty at the NYFS and Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. Her psychoanalytic writings have helped clarify and bring to life issues of female development, perversion, loneliness, and the internal world of artists and poets. Most recent publications include "Gambling and Death" in E. Ronis and L. Shaw (Eds.), Greed, Sex, Money, Power and Politics, (IP Books, 2011) and Little Boy Lost in A. Adelman and K. Malawista (Eds.), The Bereaved Therapist: From the Faraway Nearby. (Columbia University Press, 2012). She recently also published a book of poetry (2011), The Laundryman's Granddaughter: Poems by Arlene Kramer Richards, New York: IP Press. She is in private practice in New York City.