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:
 * 1) Behaviorism: John B. Watson
 * 2) Cognitivism: Aaron T. Beck, Albert Ellis
 * 3) Functionalism: William James
 * 4) Humanistic/Gestalt: Max Wertheimer
 * 5) Psychoanalytic school: Sigmund Freud
 * 6) 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
 * 32) Logotherapy
 * 33) Organismic psychology
 * 34) Organizational psychology
 * 35) Phenomenological psychology
 * 36) Process psychology
 * 37) Psychoanalysis
 * 38) Psychohistory
 * 39) Radical behaviorism - often considered a school of philosophy, not psychology.
 * 40) Psychology of self
 * 41) Social psychology (sociocultural psychology)
 * 42) Strength-based practice
 * 43) Structuralism
 * 44) Systems psychology
 * 45) Transactional analysis
 * 46) Transpersonal psychology