ABSTRACT
Merton Gill's psychoanalytic career spanned the 50 years from the early 1940s to 1994, what some might consider the American era of psychoanalysis. The early part of that period had the major figures of continental psychoanalysis (primarily from Central Europe, Austria, and Germany) torn from their roots and dispersed mostly to New York City but also to Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Boston. The development of psychoanalysis was affected, to varying degrees, by where emigres settled and by their interaction with their American colleagues.
