Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D., is a psychoanalyst and a poet. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association and Fellow of IPTAR.  She is currently faculty at the CFS 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, (IPBooks, 2011) and Little Boy Lost.  In  A. Adelman and K. Malawista (Eds.),   The Bereaved Therapist: From the Faraway Nearby. (Columbia University Press, 2012), “The Skin I Live In” In A.K. Richards, L. Spira and A.A. Lynch (Eds.) Encounters With Loneliness: Only the Lonely (2013) and a book of her papers, Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand: Selected Papers of Arlene Kramer Richards (IPBooks, 2012) Myths of the Mighty Women edited by Arlene Kramer Richards and Lucille Spira (Karnac, 2015), Psychoanalysis in Fashion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards and Anita Weinreb Katz (IPBooks, 2019), and Pedro Almodovar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Richards and Lucile Spira (IPBooks, 2019).    She also published a book of poetry The Laundryman’s Granddaughter: Poems by Arlene Kramer Richards, (IPBooks, 2011). She is a former representative from North America to the IPA.  She is in Private Practice in Palm Beach, Florida.  Below is her poem, Itta and Lycha

Itta and Lycha