50 Shrinks by Sebastian Zimmerman

Fifty Shrinks is a compendium of photographs of analysts and therapists in their offices with accompanying texts. Sebastian Zimmermann, a practicing psychiatrist and an award-winning photographer, includes a broad array of practitioners from a multitude of backgrounds, orientations and subspecialties. These intimate portraits introduce the leading luminaries in the field as well as up and coming professionals pointing the way for the next generation. Zimmermann captures how the creation of the therapeutic space mirrors the wide spectrum of philosophies, persuasions and techniques used by these practitioners. This unique book offers a glimpse into the private interiors of the therapists and the inner workings of those healers who inhabit them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sebastian Zimmermann is a psychiatrist in private practice on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and an award-winning photographer. His photograph of Martin Bergmann (cover) was featured in the New York Times, in the Photo Review international competition, and excerpts of this book have been serialized in the Psychiatric Times. Sebastian’s photographs have appeared in a variety of settings, including the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn, the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, Project Basho in Philadelphia, and the Perkins Center in New Jersey. He was also the subject of a television documentary on New York photographers for public television in his native Germany. Sebastian studied at the International Center for Photography and privately with Arlene Collins