Zastosowanie teorii ewolucji w obszarze psychoterapii

Abstract

The article discusses the relationship between psychology and the theory of evolution. Particular attention was paid to those parts of psychological reflection that deal with topics that are also the area of interest of neuroscience. The article tries to show how the theory of evolution and its references to it, by searching for the adaptive function (or its breakdowns), in various phenomena, can constitute a platform for dialogue and understanding between psychology and neuroscience. It also shows which particular spheres of phenomena in the field of psychology and psychopathology are the subject of interest of all three fields of knowledge: psychology, neurobiology and evolutionary biology. In the opinion of the author of the article, the field of psychology that deals with these spheres both in theory and in therapeutic practice is psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychodynamic psychology.