Clinical Spinoza

<p>Discovering Spinoza's early modern psychology some 35 years into his own clinical practice Ian Miller now gives shape to this connection through a close reading of Spinoza's key philosophical ideas. </p><p>With a rigorous and expansive analysis of Spinoza's <em>Ethics</em> in particular Miller explores how Spinozan thought simultaneously empowered the original conceptual direction of psychoanalytic thinking and anticipated the field's contemporary theoretical dimensions. Miller offers a detailed overview of the philosopher's psychoanalytic reception from the early work of German-langauge psychoanalytic thinkers such as Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé forward into its Anglophone reception influencing both mid-century humanistic American psychoanalysis as well as anticipating thinkers such as Bion and Winnicott. </p><p>Covering key concepts in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice this book demonstrates how knowledge of Spinoza's philosophical work can help to both illulminate and improve modern psychoanalytic therapies.</p>