ABSTRACT
And now let us leave the accountant to get back to the office and meet our patient for the first time. The first interview. At the start of training it was quite clear to me that the consultation interviews were the easiest part of the job. In Italy, psychologists that are not specialised psychotherapists can legally do them, and oftentimes interns and trainees do the first interviews in public healthcare. Even in the analytic literature that I studied the books talk about an initial phase, which should be short enough, that comes before the transference neurosis.
