List of 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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Applied psychology
  • Applied behavior analysis
  • Assessment
  • Clinical
  • Community psychology
  • Consumer
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  • Health
  • Industrial and organizational
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  • Pastoral
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  • Psychometrics
  • School
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  • Suicidology
  • Systems
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Methodologies
  • Animal testing
  • Archival research
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  • Behavior epigenetics
  • Case study
  • Content analysis
  • Experiments
  • Human subject research
  • Interviews
  • Neuroimaging
  • Observation
  • Qualitative research
  • Quantitative research
  • Self-report inventory
  • Statistical surveys
Orientations
  • Adlerian
  • Analytical
  • Behaviorism
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Cognitivism
  • Descriptive
  • Ecological systems theory
  • Existential therapy
  • Family therapy
  • Feminist therapy
  • Gestalt psychology
  • Humanistic
  • Narrative therapy
  • Philosophy
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy
  • Rational emotive behavior therapy
  • Transpersonal
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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See also
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