Hartmann, health, and homosexuality: some clinical aspects of "Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation".
Hartmann's theories have experienced a remarkable rise and fall in popularity over the past fifty years. In this paper, an effort is made to arrive at a balanced view. The genetic and economic aspects of Hartmann's ego psychology are found to be problematic, but the dynamic aspect led to a sophisticated psychoanalytic concept of health as yet unsurpassed. Hartmann always called for the clinical application of his ideas. In this spirit, a vignette is offered from a clinical area in which questions of "health" and "illness" are particularly vexing at present.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004328:Drive; D004532:Ego; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008957:Models, Genetic; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory