Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of Merton M. Gill

by Doris K. Silverman (Editor), David L. Wolitzky (Editor)

Overview

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 substantive reengagement of central controversies in which Gill played a key part. These controversies revolve around the "natural science" versus "hermeneutic" orientation in psychoanalysis (Holt, Eagle, Friedman); the status of psychoanalysis as a one-person and/or two-person psychology (Jacobs, Silverman); pyschoanalysis versus psychotherapy (Wallerstein, Migone, Gedo); and the meaning and use of transference (Kernberg, Wolitzky, Cooper).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135061845
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky

Table of Contents

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