[1][2][3] Richards also is the Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

[7] From 1994 to 2003, Richards was an editor for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA).

[4] He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and received its Distinguished Contributor Award in 2004.

[15] Richards' parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe; his father was from Podolia and his mother was from Galicia.

[16] Richards grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a Yiddish and English speaking household.