TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. General principles of the interview 2. General principles of psychodynamics 3. The obsessive patient 4. Hystercial patient 5. Phobic patient 6. The depressed patient 7. Schizophrenic patient 8. Paranoid patient 9. Sociopathic patient 10. organic brain syndrome patient 11. Psychosomatic patient 12. Ward consultation 13. The psychologically unsophisticated patient 14. Emergency patient 15. Role of the Telephone in the psychiatric interview