Arnold Richards is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is a well-known former editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1994 to 2004.
Arlene Kramer Richards's institute memberships are with the Institute for Psychoanalytical Training and Research and the Contemporary Freudian Society. Her current position is as a representative from North America to the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Both are in the private practice of psychoanalysis in their communities.
How I want to die:Like a dry leaf crushed underfoot;Like a stone dropped in a well;Like a dove swooped by a hawk;Like a lightening flash out of a cloud;Like a minnow pounced by a shark;Like a moment;Like a leaf;Like a stone;Like a dove;Like a flash;Like a minnow;And before my thirty days in hospice run out.
You celebrated your selfand rightly so.You reveled in your senses,pampered them with alimentsonatas and saucesflavorful.You tuned your bodySharpened its sensualityprepared for its adornment,clothes your advertisement.You wrote your ownjacket copypridefulbefore yourfall.
Sheri Butler, M.D., is an adult training and consulting analyst and a child consulting analyst in the child division at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. A published poet and member of TAP's editorial board, she welcomes readers' comments, suggestions, and poetry submissions at annseattle1@gmail.com.