ABSTRACT
In the preface to his final book, Psychoanalysis in Transition, Merton Gill indicates that he has long wanted to write a textbook. I am glad that he did not quite succeed. It is hard to think of Gill's ideas as embalmed, a common fate of ideas in textbooks. The book also fails to demonstrate Gill's view that psychoanalysis is “in a particular disarray as of this writing” (Gill, 1994, p. xiii). What Gill succeeds in doing is writing an important, timely essay that is exacdy captured by the tide, Psychoanalysis in Transition. The book is surprisingly slender, only 179 pages, well bound, and beautifully produced with a handsome jacket, clear type, quality paper, and a very full and helpful table of contents and index.
