1st Edition

Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis The Legacy of Merton M. Gill

Edited By Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky Copyright 2000
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

This outstanding memorial volume records and reassesses the contributions of Merton M. Gill (1914-1994), a principal architect of psychoanalytic theory and a principled exemplar of the modern psychoanalytic sensibility throughout the second half of the 20th century. Critical evaluations of Gill's place in psychoanalysis and a series of personal and professional reminiscences are joined to... Read more
I. Merton Gill's Place in Psychoanalysis
1. Gill's Influence on Psychoanalysis: An Introduction - David L. Wolitzky and Doris K. Silverman 
II. Personal/Professional Reminiscences 
2. Reminiscences - Merton M. Gill
Merton M. Gill - Roberta S. Wallerstein
Merton Gill: Teacher, Scholar, Friend - Philip S. Holzman
Merton Gill: A Sketch of His Life and Some Reminiscences - Robert R. Holt
A Personal View of Gill's Paradigm - Lawrence Friedman 
Arguments with Merton - Henry F. Smith
III. Merton Gill: Theoretician and Psychoanalyst 
3. Merton M. Gill: A Study in Theory Development in Psychoanalysis - Irwin Z. Hoffman
4. Merton M. Gill: Publications and Awards
IV. Current Controversies in Psychoanalysis
5. My Theoretical Differences with Merton Gill - Robert R. Holt
6. Reflections on Current Conceptions of countertransference and Gill's Hermeneutic Construal of Psychoanalysis - Morris N. Eagle 
7. Are Minds Objects or Dramas? - Lawrence Friedman 
8. The One-Person-Two-Person Controversy: A View from the Future - Theodore J. Jacobs 
9. Arithmetic of a One-and a Two-Person Psychology: Merton M. Gill, An Essay  - Doris K. Silverman
10. Merton Gill, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Dialogue - Robert S. Wallerstein
11. A Psychoanalysis on the Chair and a Psychotherapy on the Couch: Implications of Gill's Redefinition of the Differences Between Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy - Paolo Migone
12. Psychotherapy as Applied Psychoanalysis: Further Arguments vis-a-vis Merton Gill - John E. Gedo 
13. The Interpretation of Transference: Merton Gill's Contribution - Otto Kernberg 
14. The Conception of Transference - David L. Wolitzky 
15. The "Early" Interpretation of Transference: Implications for the Concept of Regression and the New/Old Object experience in Psychoanalytic Work - Steven H. Cooper 

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Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky