Inside the analyst's office
Gerald described to CBS News' Susan Spencer his interest in photographing offices: "All of the objects in the analyst's office, whether they're intentionally designed or brought in, or created, have meaning. Psychoanalysis is a practice of looking at and trying to understand the meaning of experience -- not only the surface meaning, but the more underlying meaning.
Left: The psychoanalytic office of Martin Bergmann, Ph.D., New York, N.Y.
"Martin Bergman is still practicing. He has turned 100 years old this year, and he is a real treasure in our field," said Gerald, pointing to his office's "very classical quality."
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"Most people's conception of psychoanalysis comes from New Yorker cartoons, Woody Allen movies -- you know, the analyst is always an old white man with a little beard, sitting with his pad behind the couch," said Gerald. But he says the field has become much more diverse: "Many more women -- in fact, nowadays, most psychoanalysts who are in training are women, many more people of color, people from different cultures and backgrounds."
Avgi Saketopoulou, Ph.D., New York, N.Y.
Lourdes (Luly) Casares, Ph.D., Coral Gables, Fla.
"You're sort of focused on [her], because there's such a blank slate there," said Spencer.
"Yes, it's true," Gerald replied, adding, "Psychoanalysis is represented by a wide spectrum -- more and more young psychoanalysts are people who are bringing different sensibilities into the work."
Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D., New York, N.Y.
"A very unusual image to have in the office," said Gerald. "It might scare one person to death, and another person might welcome something very eruptive in themselves, that they could see in this space the opportunity and the possibility of being able to bring up some of the things that feel uncontainable in themselves. . . . Many of his patients were ex-pat Israelis. So I think there was something that would resonate with them, having lived in a culture and in an environment where violence and war was not uncommon."
Sylvie Faure-Pragier, M.D., Paris, France
Kim Leary, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass.
Seymour Moscovitz, Ph.D., New York, N.Y.
Self-portrait of Mark Gerald, New York City
"So what did you learn about yourself?" asked Spencer.
"Well, I learned that it took a while to become a good subject for the camera!" he laughed. "That is, to relax into the experience. I think this is true for analysts, especially young analysts, that it takes a while to become comfortable within yourself in doing the work that you do."
For more info:
"In the Shadow of Freud's Couch" - Photographs by Mark Gerald (markgeraldphoto.com)
Freud Museum, Vienna
Freud Museum, London
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan