Psychotherapy - Is There a Way to Unwind the Ego?

In Hinduism there is a thing called the Ahamkara which is a structure like the ego. The game of awakening is to transcend that structure, not to get rid of it because the ego is very functional but to at least not be attached to it. And I wonder what the implications of that point of view are for dealing with personality or neurosis in the life of various individuals. Well as a practical matter and my experience as a therapist what seemed to happen is that I was involved in people with people whose life dramas seem to be more or less unsuccessful. As a therapist my task was to help them rewrite the script so that there was a better drama. To some extent we were