"Arlene Kramer Richards represents the essence of psychoanalysis. Any struggle with trying to define what psychoanalysis is could be resolved by traveling with Arlene as she thinks, explores the psyche, practices in her consulting room, teaches, supervises, and writes. The papers in this volume contain her breakthrough ideas and the way she conveys them to us. You find here a world of deep psychoanalytic exploration into areas of female development, creativity and poetry, compromises leading to perverseness of mind and the experience of extreme loneliness. She draws us into the world of film and the layers of the unconscious depicted in the dramas. She brings insight to areas of study with an eye to what others have been afraid to see."

-- From the Introduction to the book by Nancy Goodman