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[[Ego-psychology]] is a [[school]] of [[Sigmund Freud|post-Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]], derived from [[psychology|child psychology]], [[Freud]]'s [[topology|second topography]] and [[Anna Freud]]'s work on the [[ego]] and its [[defence]]s.
[[Ego-psychology]] holds that the [[ego]] has [[autonomous ego|autonomous energy and functions independently]].
=====History=====
The principal theorists of [[ego-psychology]] are Heinz Hartmann, Rudolf Loewenstein and Ernst Kris; its main journal is the American-based ''Psychoanalytic Study of the Child'', published since 1945.
