Psychoanalysis: Art, Science, or Ideology edited by James Tyler Carpenter is Volume #1: Issue #4 of the International Journal of Controversial Discussions in book form. It consists of the paper: "Psychoanalysis: Art, Science, or Ideology" by Arnold D. Richards, and with discussions by Daniel S. Benveniste, Sandra Buechler, Sandra E. Cohen, Joseph F. Meyer, .Jon Mills, .Merle Molofsky, Trevor Pederson, Burton N. Seitler, and Joel Weinberger and with introductions by Arnold D. Richards and James Tyler Carpenter. Also included are a book review by Alan Karbelnig with an introduction by Jane S. Hall and a book review by Daniel S. Benveniste.
Dr. Arnold Richards was 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 in private practice in Palm Beach, Florida.