List of psychological schools

  • Activity-oriented approach
  • Analytical psychology
  • Associationism
  • Behaviorism (see also Radical behaviorism)
  • Behavioural genetics
  • Biological psychology
  • Cognitivism
  • 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
  • Organismic Psychology
  • Organizational psychology
  • Phenomenological psychology
  • Phrenology (Considered as a pseudoscience)
  • Process Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Radical behaviorism – technically a school of philosophy, not psychology.
  • Self (psychology)
  • Social psychology (also known as “Sociocultural psychology”)
  • Sports Psychology
  • Structuralism
  • Transactional analysis
  • Transpersonal psychology