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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.
1. Behaviorism: Watson
2. Cognitivism: Aaron T. Beck, Albert Ellis
3. Functionalism
4. Humanistic/Gestalt: Carl Rogers
5. Psychoanalytic school: Freud
6. Systems psychology
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. Cultural-historical psychology
13. Depth psychology
14. Descriptive psychology
15. Developmental psychology
16. Ecopsychology
17. Ecological psychology
18. Ecological systems theory
19. Ego psychology
20. Environmental psychology
21. Evolutionary psychology
22. Existential psychology
23. Experimental analysis of behavior - the school descended from B.F. Skinner's work.
24. Functionalism
25. Gestalt psychology
26. Gestalt therapy
27. Humanistic psychology
28. Individual psychology
29. Industrial psychology
30. Liberation psychology
31. Logotherapy
32. Organismic psychology
33. Organizational psychology
34. Phenomenological psychology
35. Process Psychology
36. Psychoanalysis
37. Psychohistory
38. Radical behaviorism - often considered a school of philosophy, not psychology.
39. Psychology of self
40. Social psychology (sociocultural psychology)
41. Strength-based practice
42. Structuralism
43. Systems psychology
44. Transactional analysis
45. Transpersonal psychology
See also
History of psychology