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It accepts The work of [[ego-psychology]] expands on [[Freud]]'s [[structure|structural model]] of the [[mind]], focusing almost entirely on the function of [[ego]] in mediating between the conflicting [[demand]]s of the [[instinctual]] [[id]], the [[moralistic]] [[superego]] and [[external]] [[reality]].   The principal theorists of [[ego-psychology]] are Heinz Hartmann, Rudolf Loewenstein    After Freud, a number of prominent psychoanalytic theorists began to elaborate on    It accepts , but is specifically concerned with the role of the [[ego]] in mediating between the conflicting [[demand]]s of the [[instinctual]] [[id]], the [[moralistic]] [[superego]] and [[external]] [[reality]].

[[Heinz Hartmann]] argued that the healthy ego includes a sphere of autonomous ego functions that are independent of mental conflict.  According to [[Hartmann]], psychoanalytic treatment aims to expand the conflict-free sphere of ego functioning.  By doing so, [[Hartmann]] believed, [[psychoanalysis]] facilitates [[adaptation]], that is, more effective mutual regulation of [[ego]] and [[environment]]. [[Treatment]] tends to be based on the establishment of a therapeutic alliance in which the [[patient]] [[identifies]] with the strong [[ego]] of the [[analyst]].