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