ABSTRACT
In his book Psychoanalysis in Transition: A Personal View (1994c) Merton Gill sets forth a hermeneutic–constructivist–complementary model of psychoanalysis. This model invokes, in Gill's words, “an essential recasting of every significant psychoanalytic dimension.” It also lays claim to being a new paradigm for psychoanalysis. In this chapter, we will discuss the evolution of Gill's model as outlined in his book; we will provide an overview of the features of this model and how, in the assessment of the authors, this is indeed a new paradigm for psychoanalysis. In the final portion of the chapter, we will place Gill's work in the context of earlier theoretical developments in the physical sciences.
