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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.
Most influential ones
The most influential ones and its main founders are[citation needed]:
Complete list
The list below includes all these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology:
- Activity-oriented approach
- Analytical psychology
- Anti-psychiatry
- Anomalistic psychology
- Associationism
- Behaviorism (see also radical behaviorism)
- Behavioural genetics
- Bioenergetics
- Biological psychology
- Biopsychosocial model
- Cognitivism
- Cultural-historical psychology
- Depth psychology
- Descriptive psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Ecopsychology
- Ecological psychology
- Ecological systems theory
- 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
- Liberation psychology
- Logotherapy
- Organismic psychology
- Organizational psychology
- Phenomenological psychology
- Process psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychohistory
- Radical behaviorism - often considered a school of philosophy, not psychology.
- Psychology of self
- Social psychology (sociocultural psychology)
- Strength-based practice
- Structuralism
- Systems psychology
- Transactional analysis
- Transpersonal psychology