List of Psychological Schools | List Psychological Schools

The psychological schools are the great classical theories of psychology. Each has been highly influential, however most psychologists hold eclectic viewpoints that combine aspects of each school.

The most influential ones are behaviorism, the psychoanalytic school of Freud, Systems psychology, functionalism, humanistic/Gestalt, and cognitivism. The list below includes all these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology:

Activity-oriented approach
Analytical psychology
Associationism
Behaviorism (see also radical behaviorism)
Behavioural genetics
Bioenergetics
Biological psychology
Cognitivism
Cultural-historical psychology
Depth psychology
Descriptive psychology
Developmental psychology
Ecopsychology
Ecological psychology
Ego psychology
Environmental psychology
Evolutionary psychology
Existential psychology
Experimental analysis of behavior - the school descended from B.F. Skinner's work.
Functionalism
Gestalt psychology
Gestalt therapy
Humanistic psychology
Individual psychology
Industrial psychology
Logotherapy
Organismic psychology
Organizational psychology
Phenomenological psychology
Phrenology (now considered a pseudoscience))
Process Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Radical behaviorism - often considered a school of philosophy, not psychology.
Psychology of self
Social psychology (sociocultural psychology)
Structuralism
Systems psychology
Transactional analysis
Transpersonal psychology

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Eminent psychologists	Alfred Adler Gordon Allport Albert Bandura Aaron Beck John Bowlby Raymond Cattell Kenneth and Mamie Clark Albert Ellis Erik Erikson Hans Eysenck Leon Festinger Sigmund Freud Harry Harlow Donald O. Hebb Clark L. Hull William James Carl Jung Jerome Kagan Kurt Lewin Ivar Lovaas Abraham Maslow David McClelland George A. Miller Neal E. Miller Walter Mischel Ivan Pavlov Jean Piaget Carl Rogers Stanley Schachter B. F. Skinner Edward Thorndike John B. Watson Wilhelm Wundt

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