Sandler, Foreword. Møller, Lagerlof, Reith, General Introduction. Part I: ‘Are You a Doctor, Sir?’ Lagerlof, Skale, Introduction. Freud, Katharina. Skale, Commentary. Argelander, The Psychoanalytic Initial Interview and its Method: A Postscript to Freud’s Case ‘Katharina’. Lagerlof, A Short Overview of the Development of Ideas About ‘First Interviews’ After Freud. Part II: Consultation and Referral. Crick, Introduction. Gibeault, Commentary. Kestemberg, Well, Then, Anything New? What that First Interview Can Teach Us. Crick, Commentary. Klauber, Personal Attitudes to Psychoanalytic Consultation. Crick, Commentary. Bronstein, Flanders, The Development of a Therapeutic Space in a First Contact with Adolescents. Gibeault, Commentary. Baldacci, Bouchard, The Analytic Encounter: A Historical and Process-oriented Perspective. Gibeault, Commentary. Donnet, de M'Uzan, The Analytical Encounter. Jaffe, Commentary. Bolognini, The Profession of Ferryman: Considerations on the Analyst’s Internal Attitude in Consultation and in Referral. Part III: The Analyst’s Struggle with the Experience of a First Meeting. Møller, Introduction. Møller, Commentary. Ogden, Comments on Transference and Countertransference in the Initial Analytic Meeting. Wegner, Commentary. Dantlgraber, Observations on the Subjective Indication for Psychoanalysis. Skale, Commentary. Wegner, The Opening Scene and the Importance of the Countertransference. Jaffe, Commentary. Racalbuto, The Consultation in Psychoanalysis and its 'Location': Working on the Frontier. Jaffe, Commentary. Ferro, Consultation, Reverie and Story-telling. Part IV: Daring or Reluctance to Start Analysis? Reith, Introduction. Reith, Commentary. Rothstein, A Perspective on Doing a Consultation and Making the Recommendation of Analysis to a Prospective Analysand. Gibeault, Commentary. David, In What Frame of Mind Should the First Interview be Approached? Reith, Commentary. Quinodoz, The Psychoanalyst of the Future: Wise Enough to Dare to be Mad at Times. Møller, Commentary. Ehrlich, The Analyst’s Reluctance to Begin a New Analysis. Vermote, Making the Best of a Bad Job.