Clinical Spinoza: Integrating His Philosophy with Contemporary Therapeutic Practice

Ian Miller explores Spinoza's early modern psychology, showing how his ideas empowered psychoanalytic thinking and anticipated contemporary theoretical dimensions. He provides a detailed overview of the philosopher's psychoanalytic reception, influencing mid-century humanistic American psychoanalysis and anticipating thinkers like Bion and Winnicott. This book demonstrates how knowledge of Spinoza's work can enhance and improve modern psychoanalytic therapies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 332 pages
Publication date: 22 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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.

With a rigorous and expansive analysis of Spinoza's Ethics 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-language 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.

Covering key concepts in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, this book demonstrates how knowledge of Spinoza's philosophical work can help to both illuminate and improve modern psychoanalytic therapies.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032159348