Psychoanalyst office

For Fifty Shrinks, New York City-based photographer and psychiatrist Sebastian Zimmermann shot dozens of therapists and psychoanalysts standing or seated within their private offices. The seedling ideas for the project began to take root as Zimmermann built his own practice in Upper West Side Manhattan, where he observed within himself a sense of remoteness from the outside world. While his patients shared with him intimate portions of themselves, the role of psychiatrist necessitated a…

Six short stories about how the relationship between patients and therapists can get... complicated.

When decorating their offices, therapists are increasingly aware that their office space can have a profound impact on their patients.

Mark Gerald is a photographer, but he’s also a psychoanalyst. So ask him how he got the idea for his portrait series of his colleagues in their...

Mark Gerald is a photographer, but he’s also a psychoanalyst. So ask him how he got the idea for his portrait series of his colleagues in their...

Sebastian Zimmermann’s photo series Fifty Shrinks takes us inside the minds of psychotherapists in New York.

Dr. Gerald's images will be on display in an exhibition titled "In the Shadow of Freud's Couch: Photographic Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices," opening on Sunday at Iptar West, the offices of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research on the West Side. Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D., in his SoHo office. Credit: Mark Gerald, Ph.D.