Ego Psychology and The Problem of Adaptation

The ego psychology, which is needed as a reason for the psychiatry discipline to gain more empirical-pragmatic direction, has brought forward the spirit-matter dilemma, one of the most profound questions in the history of philosophy, in terms of the knowledge philosophy. As a discipline, psychiatry is based on biology and has an organicist perspective. Unfortunately, it disregards the part of the brain that has not been explained in basic science yet. The fact that people who have recovered with psychoanalysis are not counted as patients in some psychiatrists' eyes is one of the reasons why the field of psychoanalysis is theoretically unconvincing.

Seeing the healing process as a Placebo effect also explains that the application that provides improvement with a non-specific technique is not enough to confirm the theory. Yet all this cannot overshadow the fact that the psychoanalytic approach is relatively the most respected and long-lasting remedy. Heinz Hartmann, who tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with psychiatry and psychology, became the pioneer of the school of ego psychology. With this book, many psychoanalytic concepts have been defined more clearly, and Freud's structural theory has become even more competent. While the author deals with adaptation and ego in detail, he also touches on the question of how we can spread neurotic psychoanalysis more into psychology. This book is a guide for those who are interested in psychoanalysis and want to dig deep into it.