Book Reviews -- Psychoanalysis in Transition: A Personal View by Merton M. Gill

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MERTON M. GILL: Psychoanalysis in Transition: A Personal View. Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 1994, 196 pp., $29.95.

Psychoanalysis in Transition, in spite of Gill's great erudition, is written without pedantic pretension. He is refreshingly frank. He recounts that in the 1940s he reviewed Grinker and Spiegel's Men under Stress for a journal club at the Menninger Clinic. Gill recalls Menninger's rather characteristic acerbic remark after the presentation: "Merton, I have never known anyone else with your capacity to make something intrinsically so lively and exciting so dull and boring" (p. x). Gill goes on to say that he has been struggling against that propensity ever …