Festschrift In Honor of Arnold David Richards and the Psychoanalytic Thought Collective of His Times Edited by Daniel S. Benveniste and M. Sagman Kayatekin

“ARNIE, NOW AND ALWAYS, HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF INDEFATIGABLE GENERATIVITY!” —WARREN POLAND, MD, author of Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis, Awarded the Sigourney Prize in 2009

“Arnie is an expert in savoring both the ordinary and extraordinary dimensions of life, never allowing fear or worry to stand in the way of living, thinking and creating freely and fully.”
—ZERRIN EMEL KAYATEKIN, MD, adult psychiatrist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, family therapist.

“Richards’s legacy resides not only in what he has written and taught, but in the analytic attitude he embodies—an openness to dialogue, dissent, and renewal that allows psychoanalysis, like the human mind it seeks to understand, to remain unfinished, evolving, and alive.”
—LEONIE SULLIVAN, FIPA. Australian Psychoanalytical So ciety; Visiting Professor, China National Psychotherapy Training (2012–2025); IPA Training Psychoanalyst

“What makes this book remarkable is its vivid evocation of the human presence of a remarkable person whose contributions included six volumes of Selected Papers, work on ‘thought collectives,’ and activities in publishing, Left politics, Yiddish culture, psycho-analysis in China, poetry, and photography. The book almost breathes!
—CHARLES P. FISHER, MD, Associate Head of the Science Department, American Psychoanalytic Association

This book celebrates not only Arnold Richards’s extraordinary intellectual trajectory, but also an ethical way of inhabiting psychoanalysis: as a living tradition, as historical responsibility, and as openness to the future.
—Adriana Prengler, FIPA, Former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association (2021–2025)