List of psychoanalytical theorists

Some the most influential psychoanalysts and theorists, philosophers and literary critics who were or are influenced by psychoanalysis include:


 * Karl Abraham – psychoanalyst
 * Nicolas Abraham – psychoanalyst
 * Alfred Adler – founder of individual psychology
 * Theodor Adorno – philosopher
 * Salman Akhtar- psychoanalyst
 * Franz Alexander – psychoanalyst
 * Louis Althusser – philosopher
 * Lou Andreas-Salomé – psychoanalyst
 * Didier Anzieu – psychoanalyst
 * Lisa Appignanesi
 * Jacob Arlow
 * Michael Balint – psychoanalyst
 * Lee Baxandall
 * Ernest Becker
 * Jessica Benjamin – psychoanalyst
 * Bruno Bettelheim
 * Wilfred Bion – psychoanalyst
 * Harold Bloom
 * Christopher Bollas – psychoanalyst
 * John Bowlby – psychoanalyst
 * Charles Brenner
 * André Breton
 * Abraham Brill – psychoanalyst
 * Deborah Britzman
 * Norman O. Brown
 * Ruth Mack Brunswick – psychoanalyst
 * Judith Butler – philosopher
 * Cornelius Castoriadis
 * Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel – psychoanalyst
 * Nancy Chodorow
 * David Cooper
 * Joan Copjec
 * Gilles Deleuze – philosopher
 * Jacques Derrida – philosopher
 * Helene Deutsch – psychoanalyst
 * Françoise Dolto – psychoanalyst
 * Terry Eagleton
 * Kurt R. Eissler – psychoanalyst
 * Max Eitingon – psychoanalyst
 * Erik Erikson – psychoanalyst
 * Horacio Etchegoyen – psychoanalyst
 * Bracha L. Ettinger
 * Ronald Fairbairn – psychoanalyst
 * Pierre Fédida
 * Shoshana Felman
 * Otto Fenichel – psychoanalyst
 * Sándor Ferenczi – psychoanalyst
 * John Flügel – psychoanalyst
 * John Forrester
 * S. H. Foulkes – psychoanalyst
 * Anna Freud – psychoanalyst
 * Sigmund Freud – founder of psychoanalysis
 * Erich Fromm – social psychologist
 * Frieda Fromm-Reichmann – psychoanalyst
 * Jane Gallop


 * Carol Gilligan
 * Edward Glover – psychoanalyst
 * André Green – psychoanalyst
 * Jay Greenberg – psychoanalyst
 * Ralph R. Greenson – psychoanalyst
 * Otto Gross
 * Elizabeth Grosz
 * Stephen Grosz – psychoanalyst
 * Félix Guattari – philosopher
 * Harry Guntrip – psychoanalyst
 * Jürgen Habermas – philosopher
 * G. Stanley Hall – psychologist
 * Heinz Hartmann – psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
 * Paula Heimann – psychoanalyst
 * James Hillman - founder of Archetypal Psychology
 * James Hollis - psychoanalyst
 * Karen Horney – psychoanalyst
 * Luce Irigaray – philosopher
 * Susan Sutherland Isaacs – psychoanalyst
 * Edith Jacobson – psychoanalyst
 * Arthur Janov
 * Adrian Johnston – philosopher
 * Ernest Jones – psychoanalyst
 * Carl Jung – founder of analytical psychology
 * Eric Kandel
 * Károly Kerényi
 * Otto Kernberg – psychoanalyst
 * Paulina Kernberg – psychoanalyst
 * Masud Khan – psychoanalyst
 * Melanie Klein – psychoanalyst
 * Heinz Kohut – psychoanalyst
 * Joel Kovel – psychoanalyst
 * Julia Kristeva – psychoanalyst and philosopher
 * Jacques Lacan – psychoanalyst
 * Robert Langs – psychoanalyst
 * R. D. Laing
 * Jean Laplanche – psychoanalyst
 * Darian Leader – psychoanalyst
 * Jonathan Lear – psychoanalyst
 * Claude Lévi-Strauss
 * Hans Loewald – psychoanalyst
 * Henry Zvi Lothane
 * Alexander Lowen – psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
 * Rudolf Löwenstein – psychoanalyst
 * Jean-François Lyotard – philosopher
 * Margaret Mahler – psychoanalyst
 * Maud Mannoni – psychoanalyst
 * Octave Mannoni – psychoanalyst
 * Herbert Marcuse – philosopher
 * Donald Meltzer – psychoanalyst
 * Karl Menninger
 * Adolf Meyer
 * Juliet Mitchell – psychoanalyst
 * Stephen A. Mitchell
 * Toril Moi


 * Juan-David Nasio
 * Erich Neumann
 * Susie Orbach – psychoanalyst
 * Joy Osofsky – psychoanalyst
 * Fritz Perls
 * Adam Phillips – psychoanalyst
 * Sandor Rado – psychoanalyst
 * Otto Rank – psychoanalyst
 * David Rapaport
 * Wilhelm Reich – psychoanalyst
 * Theodor Reik – psychoanalyst
 * Laurence A. Rickels
 * Paul Ricœur – philosopher
 * Philip Rieff
 * Joan Riviere – psychoanalyst
 * Géza Róheim
 * Avital Ronell
 * Jacqueline Rose
 * Herbert Rosenfeld – psychoanalyst
 * Élisabeth Roudinesco
 * Benjamin B. Rubinstein
 * Jurgen Ruesch
 * Hanns Sachs – psychoanalyst
 * Joseph J. Sandler – psychoanalyst
 * Jean-Paul Sartre – philosopher
 * Nina Searl
 * Harold Searles – psychoanalyst
 * Hanna Segal – psychoanalyst
 * Roy Schafer – psychoanalyst
 * Melitta Schmideberg – psychoanalyst
 * Mark Solms
 * Sabina Spielrein – psychoanalyst
 * René Spitz – psychoanalyst
 * Hyman Spotnitz
 * Martin Stanton – psychoanalyst
 * John Steiner – psychoanalyst
 * Wilhelm Stekel – psychoanalyst
 * Daniel N. Stern
 * Robert J. Stoller – psychoanalyst
 * Alix Strachey – psychoanalyst
 * James Strachey – psychoanalyst
 * Harry Stack Sullivan – psychoanalyst
 * Neville Symington – psychoanalyst
 * Arthur Tansley
 * Victor Tausk – psychoanalyst
 * Clara Thompson – psychoanalyst
 * Mária Török – psychoanalyst
 * Lionel Trilling
 * Frances Tustin – psychoanalyst
 * Vamık Volkan – psychiatrist
 * Donald Winnicott – psychoanalyst
 * Robert M. Young
 * Elisabeth Young-Bruehl – psychoanalyst
 * Gregory Zilboorg – psychoanalyst
 * Slavoj Žižek – philosopher
 * Alenka Zupančič – philosopher