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, functionalism, humanistic/Gestalt, and cognitivism. Here are some other schools of thought in psychology:
- Activity-oriented approach
- Analytical psychology
- Associationism
- Behaviorism (see also Radical behaviourism)
- Behavioural genetics
- Biological psychology
- Cognitivism
- Cultural-historical psychology
- Depth psychology
- Descriptive psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Ecopsychology
- 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
- Organismic Psychology
- Phenomenological psychology
- Phrenology
- Psychoanalysis
- Radical behaviorism - technically a school of philosophy, not psychology.
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
- Self (psychology)
- Social psychology (also known as "Sociocultural psychology")
- Structuralism
- Transactional analysis
- Transpersonal psychology
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 19 September 2008, at 17:07.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by PediaView.com. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with PediaView.com.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "List of psychological schools".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.