ABSTRACT
Merton Gill has left his mark on psychoanalysis in multiple ways. Rather than provide a review of his many years of theoretical contribution to the ®eld, which can be found in both his own many writings and various summaries by others, I want to focus on his 1994 view of what constitutes true psychoanalytic work. In this phase of his life, he strongly adhered to the idea that psychoanalysis is a procedure that involves the analysis of transference and does not need to rely on what he called the extrinsic factors of couch and frequency. This stance was the culmination of views he held from 1979 onwards.
