Dr. Seth Eichler is Chairman of the Adult Psychotherapy Program, NYU Psychoanalytic Institute at NYU Medical Center. He has practiced psychotherapy for 27 years. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute and Instructor in both the Psychoanalytic Program and the Adult Psychotherapy Program. He is a past President of the Long Island Psychoanalytic Society and also teaches at the Zucker Hillside Hospital. He is the author of articles on psychoanalytic issues and psychiatric education and has been published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and other professional journals.
Every new therapist faces a first session, often with trepidation. How do they prepare for that first session? How do they know what tools to apply on that first day, and over those first few weeks?... (more)