List of psychological schools explained

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.

Most influential ones

The most influential ones and its main founders are:

1. Behaviorism: John B. Watson
2. Cognitivism: }}, Albert Ellis
3. Functionalism: William James
4. Humanistic/Gestalt: Max Wertheimer
   1. Psychoanalytic school: Sigmund Freud Systems psychology: Gregory Bateson, Felix Guattari

Complete list

The list below includes all these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology:

1. Activity-oriented approach
2. Analytical psychology
3. Anti-psychiatry
4. Anomalistic psychology
5. Associationism
6. Behaviorism (see also radical behaviorism)
7. Behavioural genetics
8. Bioenergetics
9. Biological psychology
10. Biopsychosocial model
11. Cognitivism
12. Constructivism
13. Cultural-historical psychology
14. Depth psychology
15. Descriptive psychology
16. Developmental psychology
17. Ecopsychology
18. Ecological psychology
19. Ecological systems theory
20. Ego psychology
21. Environmental psychology
22. Evolutionary psychology
23. Existential psychology
24. Experimental analysis of behavior - the school descended from B.F. Skinner's work.
25. Functionalism
26. Gestalt psychology
27. Gestalt therapy
28. Humanistic psychology
29. Individual psychology
30. Industrial psychology
31. Liberation psychology
    1. Logotherapy Organismic psychology
32. Organizational psychology
33. Phenomenological psychology
34. Process psychology
35. Psychoanalysis
36. Psychohistory
37. Radical behaviorism - often considered a school of philosophy, not psychology.
38. Psychology of self
39. Social psychology (sociocultural psychology)
40. Strength-based practice
41. Structuralism
42. Systems psychology
43. Transactional analysis
44. Transpersonal psychology

See also

• History of psychology