ABSTRACT
The experience of photographing psychoanalysts in their offices has focused my attention on the historical meaning of our workspaces, their current significations, and how they may shape up in the future. I have photographed almost 100 analysts in their offices in North and South America and in Europe. I have photographed major figures in the field, candidates at institutes, and a wide range of professionals practicing varying types of psychoanalysis. They have generally welcomed the opportunity to be seen, regardless of theoretical orientation. All work in that special province that is the psychoanalytic office, all are office holders of psychoanalysis, all toil to clarify and alleviate the suffering of others, and most all are shaded to some degree by Freud’s couch.
