Arnold Richards: Collected Papers, Volume 2: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives: More Selected Papers by Arnold Richards, Volume 2. Edited by Arthur Lynch. New York:  International Psychoanalytic Books, 2017,  xl + 340 pp., $35.00 paperback.

In this second volume of his collected essays, Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Arnold Richards identifies some of the most important forces that came together to create psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on the development of psychoanalysis in the United States. He illustrates how these same forces are responsible for the deep schisms and institutionalized exclusionary practices that plague the field today. The essays provide illuminating historical data, important for contemporary psychoanalysts to consider. Cicero made the point that to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Likewise, remaining ignorant of the forces that have shaped the development of psychoanalysis results in a superficial and simplistic understanding of controversies in the field.

This volume contains nineteen essays written between 1990 and 2016. Most are by Richards; a few are written in collaboration with other authors (Paul Mosher, ArthurLynch, Janet Bachant). Editor Arthur Lynch contributes a preface. The topics are wide-ranging: the roots of psychoanalysis in Judaism; Freud's and Brill's impact on psychoanalysis in the U.S.; Freud's free clinics; the history of the certification process in APsaA1; psychoanalysis and the far left; and thoughts about the future of psychoanalysis. Several book reviews and keynote addresses are also included.