List of psychological schools

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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.

The most influential ones are behaviorism, the psychoanalytic school of Freud, Systems psychology, functionalism, humanistic/Gestalt, and cognitivism. The list below includes all these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology:

• Cultural-historical psychology
• Depth psychology
• Descriptive psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Ecopsychology
• Ecological psychology
• 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
• 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)
• Structuralism
• Systems psychology
• Transactional analysis
• Transpersonal psychology