Introduction

Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 2003 and, prior to that, Editor of TAP. He is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and an honorary member of the Karen Horney Clinic. Dr. Richards is currently on the faculty at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology at Wuhan, China. He is planning a series of five volumes of his selected papers, the first two of which have been published: Volume I: Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations, Volume 2: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Volume 3: The Psychoanalyst at Work, Volume 4: The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst, 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 and ipbooks.net. He is retired from private practice in Palm Beach, Florida.

Licensed psychologist and Instructor of Psychiatry (Harvard Medical School) working in the General Mental Health Clinic and Behavioral Medicine services on the Brockton campus of the VA Boston Healthcare System. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The University of Rhode Island, completed his predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and received Masters' degrees from The College of William & Mary (experimental psychology) and Columbia University. His clinical duties include individual and group cognitive-behavioral treatment for a variety of mental health conditions (e.g., mood and anxiety disorders, OCD, insomnia, and chronic pain) as well as diagnostic interviewing. He also supervises clinical psychology trainees. In addition to clinical services and supervision, Dr. Meyer serves on the MIT Catalyst Fellows Access Team and consults on process improvement projects. His scholarly interests over the years have included mental health stigma, differentiating science from pseudoscience in clinical psychology, clinical decision making, philosophy of science, and psychometrics.