Schools and movements in psychology

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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, functionalism, and cognitivism. Here are some other schools of thought in psychology:

• Analytical psychology
• Association (psychology)
• Behaviorism (see also Radical behaviourism)
• Berlin school
• Cognitivism
• Depth psychology
• Descriptive psychology
• Distributed cognition
• Ecological psychology
• Ego psychology
• Enactivism
• Environmental psychology
• Evolutionary psychology
• Existential psychology
• Functionalism
• Genetic epistemology
• Gestalt psychology
• Graz school
• Hormic approach
• Humanistic psychology and Phenomenology
• Individual psychology
• London School of Differential Psychology

• Object relations theory
• Phenomenological psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Reactology
• Self (psychology)
• Soviet psychology
• Structuralism
• Symbolic interactionism
• Transactional analysis
• Transpersonal psychology