Clinical Spinoza Av Ian Miller

<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-Salom¿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 illul