This is the second of the posthumous books of Harry Stack Sullivan prepared under the auspices of the William Alanson White Foundation. It is based on two lecture series which Sullivan gave at the Washington School of Psychiatry in 1944 and again in 1945. Although the lectures were directed primarily toward psychiatrists, they were meant also for “all those who engage in dynamic interviewing.” The psychiatric interview is seen as a special instance of interpersonal relations and not referring exclusively to the meeting of psychiatrist and patient. The word “psychiatric” is kept within a therapeutic framework using data derived from the observation of what goes on between the participants and clarifying patterns of living. The term “interview” is