Introduction / Charles Silverstein -- Scott's Interview (transcript) / Charles Silverstein -- The initial psychotherapy interview / Charles Silverstein -- Variations on gender and orientation in Scott's first interview / Margaret Nichols -- Institutional aspects of the initial interview / Ronald E. Hellman -- Death and bereavement / Michael C. Singer -- An attachment perspective on the first interview (accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy) / Gil Tunnell -- Understanding self-report of sexual abuse in an initial clinical interview / John C. Gonsiorek -- Sex, drugs, and HIV (clinical issues and assessment strategies) / Peter S. Theodore -- Motivational interviewing for health behavior problems / Donald Bux -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy / DeMond M. Grant and LaRicka R. Wingate -- Family systems (the relational contexts of individual symptoms) / Corinne Datchi-Phillips -- Listening as a psychoanalyst / Ralph Roughton -- Psychodrama (in searach of meaning through action) / Jacob Gershoni -- Gay-affirmative psychotheraphy in real time (a first interview) / Armand R. Cerbone.