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This is an alphabetical List of Psychotherapies. It is an incomplete list and new or minor approaches are still being added.

See the main article Psychotherapy for a description of what psychotherapy is and how it developed.

This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim, of improving mental health and well being through talk and other means of communication.

In the 20th century a great number of psychotherapies appeared in western societies.

A

• Abreaction therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Adlerian psychotherapy
• Adventure therapy
• Analytical psychotherapy
• Art therapy
• Attack therapy
• Attachment-based therapy (children)
• Attachment therapy
• Attachment-based psychotherapy
• Autogenic training
• Aversion therapy

B

• Behavior modification
• Behavior therapy
• Biodynamic psychotherapy
• Bioenergetic analysis
• Biofeedback
• Biosynthesis
• Body psychotherapy
• Brief psychotherapy

C

• Child psychotherapy
• Classical adlerian psychotherapy
• Client centered psychotherapy
• Co-counselling
• Cognitive analytic psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Coherence therapy
• Collaborative therapy
• Concentrative movement therapy
• Contemplative psychotherapy
• Conversational model
• Conversion therapy
• Core process psychotherapy

D

• Dance therapy
• Daseins analytic psychotherapy
• Depth psychology
• Developmental needs meeting strategy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Dreamwork
• Drama therapy
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)

E

• Emotional freedom techniques (EFT)
• Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Encounter group
• Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy (EMDR)
• Existential analysis
• Experiential Dynamic Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

F

• Family systems therapy
• Feminist therapy
• Focusing
• Psychoanalysis

G

• Gestalt therapy
• Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy
• Group therapy

H

• Holotropic breathwork
• Humanistic psychology
• Human Givens
• Hypnotherapy

I

• Integrative psychotherapy
• Internal family systems model
• Interpersonal psychotherapy

J

• Jungian psychotherapy

L

• Lifespan integration
• Logotherapy

M

• Method of levels (MOL)
• Morita therapy
• Multicultural counselling and therapy (MCT)
• Multimodal therapy
• Music therapy

N

• Narrative Therapy
• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

O

• Object relations theory

P

• Personal construct psychology (PCP)
• Persuasion therapy
• Positive psychotherapy
• Postural integration
• Primal integration
• Process oriented psychology
• Primal Therapy
• Provocative therapy
• Psychedelic psychotherapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychodrama
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Psycho-Organic analysis
• Psychosynthesis
• Pulsing (bodywork)

R

• Rational emotive therapy
• Re-evaluation counseling
• Reality therapy
• Reichian psychotherapy
• Rogerian psychotherapy
• Rolfing

S

• Self relationship (or ''Sponsorship'') therapy
• Skumin mind control method
• Solution focused brief therapy
• Sophia analysis
• Systemic therapy

T

• T Groups
• Transactional analysis (TA)
• Transpersonal psychology

See also

• Cognitive therapy
• Criteria for the assessment of clinical studies
• Discredited therapies
• List of cognitive–behavioral therapies
• Theoretical orientation