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Merton Gill has made another significant contribution to the analytic literature. Drawing on his clinical experience and his extensive knowledge of the literature, he has written another monograph with the clarity and precision he is noted for. This time the subject is analysis of transference. The author feels that only detailed clinical material can make his position clear. Brief vignettes will not do. Therefore, a subsequent volume will contain nine annotated audio-recorded sessions.
Gill's major thesis is that frequently the analytic process is not of good technical quality because the transference is not made the primary and central issue. Many analysts wait, passively, until transferential material becomes so explicit that they must deal with it. They miss many opportunities to deal with resistance to the awareness of transference. As a result, treatment suffers and often becomes stalemated. Gill also feels that there is too much emphasis on transference from the classical genetic standpoint rather than on the here and now of the current analytic relationship.
In the same forthright manner in which he advocates methods of dealing with transference, Gill confronts the serious differences of opinion, and the ambiguities, that various authors have contributed to the literature. Even Freud is not above reproach. The discoverer of transference was not always consistent in applying its principles in actual practice. Of course,