Sophia Richman

Sophia Richman began life as a Jewish child marked for death in war-torn Poland. She survived in hiding during her toddler years and wrote to tell about it many years later. Her first book published in 2002 is the award-winning memoir A Wolf in the Attic: the Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust (Routledge). Unlike much of Holocaust literature, this book does not only focus on the survival story but also explores the long term impact of her childhood trauma on her life and adult choices. Dr. Richman became a psychologist-psychoanalyst and has been practicing her profession for close to 50 years. In addition to her private practice in New York and New Jersey, she is affiliated with several psychoanalytic institutes where she supervises and consults. She is also a painter. Her long-term interest in the interface between art and healing has led to a new book about creativity and trauma titled: Mended by the Muse: Creative Transformations of Trauma published by Routledge in 2014. This book offers a new theory of the creative process and through numerous illustrations provides an understanding of the healing potential of the arts.