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Merton max gill was born in chicago on July 26, 1914. This special issue, occasioned primarily by the importance of his recent twin monograph on transference, thus happily affords his friends and colleagues the opportunity also to celebrate the 70th birthday of a man who is not only widely respected for his many scientific and professional contributions but is loved and cherished as a person.
When I first met Mert, about 38 years ago, only eight years had passed since he had received his MD (from the University of Chicago, where he also did his undergraduate work). After an internship at Michael Reese Hospital, he had finally made the break from Chicago to take a residency in psychiatry at the Menninger Clinic. By 1946, he had not only become a staff member but had been Chief of the Outpatient Department for a year and was freshly become Assistant Director of the Research Department, David Rapaport's right-hand man. A pretty rapid rise for a 32-year-old man. No one seemed to look on Mert as a “boy wonder,” however. He was mature for his years, and clearly possessed not only intellectual brilliance but a charismatic personal quality that has always drawn people to him. He completed his psychoanalytic training in the Topeka Institute in 1947.