List of psychoanalytical theorists

Some the most influential psychoanalysts and theorists, philosophers and literary critics who were or are influenced by psychoanalysis include:

Karl Abraham – psychoanalyst
Nicolas Abraham – psychoanalyst
Alfred Adler – founder of individual psychology
Theodor Adorno – philosopher
Salman Akhtar- psychoanalyst
Franz Alexander – psychoanalyst
Louis Althusser – philosopher
Lou Andreas-Salomé – psychoanalyst
Didier Anzieu – psychoanalyst
Lisa Appignanesi
Jacob Arlow
Michael Balint – psychoanalyst
Lee Baxandall
Ernest Becker
Jessica Benjamin – psychoanalyst
Bruno Bettelheim
Wilfred Bion – psychoanalyst
Harold Bloom
Christopher Bollas – psychoanalyst
John Bowlby – psychoanalyst
Charles Brenner
André Breton
Abraham Brill – psychoanalyst
Deborah Britzman
Norman O. Brown
Ruth Mack Brunswick – psychoanalyst
Judith Butler – philosopher
Cornelius Castoriadis
Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel – psychoanalyst
Nancy Chodorow
David Cooper
Joan Copjec
Gilles Deleuze – philosopher
Jacques Derrida – philosopher
Helene Deutsch – psychoanalyst
Françoise Dolto – psychoanalyst
Terry Eagleton
Kurt R. Eissler – psychoanalyst
Max Eitingon – psychoanalyst
Erik Erikson – psychoanalyst
Horacio Etchegoyen – psychoanalyst
Bracha L. Ettinger
Ronald Fairbairn – psychoanalyst
Pierre Fédida
Shoshana Felman
Otto Fenichel – psychoanalyst
Sándor Ferenczi – psychoanalyst
John Flügel – psychoanalyst
John Forrester
S. H. Foulkes – psychoanalyst
Anna Freud – psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud – founder of psychoanalysis
Erich Fromm – social psychologist
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann – psychoanalyst
Jane Gallop

Carol Gilligan
Edward Glover – psychoanalyst
André Green – psychoanalyst
Jay Greenberg – psychoanalyst
Ralph R. Greenson – psychoanalyst
Otto Gross
Elizabeth Grosz
Stephen Grosz – psychoanalyst
Félix Guattari – philosopher
Harry Guntrip – psychoanalyst
Jürgen Habermas – philosopher
G. Stanley Hall – psychologist
Heinz Hartmann – psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Paula Heimann – psychoanalyst
James Hillman - founder of Archetypal Psychology
James Hollis - psychoanalyst
Karen Horney – psychoanalyst
Luce Irigaray – philosopher
Susan Sutherland Isaacs – psychoanalyst
Edith Jacobson – psychoanalyst
Arthur Janov
Adrian Johnston – philosopher
Ernest Jones – psychoanalyst
Carl Jung – founder of analytical psychology
Eric Kandel
Károly Kerényi
Otto Kernberg – psychoanalyst
Paulina Kernberg – psychoanalyst
Masud Khan – psychoanalyst
Melanie Klein – psychoanalyst
Heinz Kohut – psychoanalyst
Joel Kovel – psychoanalyst
Julia Kristeva – psychoanalyst and philosopher
Jacques Lacan – psychoanalyst
Robert Langs – psychoanalyst
R. D. Laing
Jean Laplanche – psychoanalyst
Darian Leader – psychoanalyst
Jonathan Lear – psychoanalyst
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Hans Loewald – psychoanalyst
Henry Zvi Lothane
Alexander Lowen – psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Rudolf Löwenstein – psychoanalyst
Jean-François Lyotard – philosopher
Margaret Mahler – psychoanalyst
Maud Mannoni – psychoanalyst
Octave Mannoni – psychoanalyst
Herbert Marcuse – philosopher
Donald Meltzer – psychoanalyst
Karl Menninger
Adolf Meyer
Juliet Mitchell – psychoanalyst
Stephen A. Mitchell
Toril Moi

Juan-David Nasio
Erich Neumann
Susie Orbach – psychoanalyst
Joy Osofsky – psychoanalyst
Fritz Perls
Adam Phillips – psychoanalyst
Sandor Rado – psychoanalyst
Otto Rank – psychoanalyst
David Rapaport
Wilhelm Reich – psychoanalyst
Theodor Reik – psychoanalyst
Laurence A. Rickels
Paul Ricœur – philosopher
Philip Rieff
Joan Riviere – psychoanalyst
Géza Róheim
Avital Ronell
Duane Rousselle - psychoanalyst and sociologist
Jacqueline Rose
Herbert Rosenfeld – psychoanalyst
Élisabeth Roudinesco
Benjamin B. Rubinstein
Jurgen Ruesch
Hanns Sachs – psychoanalyst
Joseph J. Sandler – psychoanalyst
Jean-Paul Sartre – philosopher
Nina Searl
Harold Searles – psychoanalyst
Hanna Segal – psychoanalyst
Roy Schafer – psychoanalyst
Melitta Schmideberg – psychoanalyst
Mark Solms
Sabina Spielrein – psychoanalyst
René Spitz – psychoanalyst
Hyman Spotnitz
Martin Stanton – psychoanalyst
John Steiner – psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Stekel – psychoanalyst
Daniel N. Stern
Robert J. Stoller – psychoanalyst
Alix Strachey – psychoanalyst
James Strachey – psychoanalyst
Harry Stack Sullivan – psychoanalyst
Neville Symington – psychoanalyst
Arthur Tansley
Victor Tausk – psychoanalyst
Clara Thompson – psychoanalyst
Mária Török – psychoanalyst
Lionel Trilling
Frances Tustin – psychoanalyst
Vamık Volkan – psychiatrist
Donald Winnicott – psychoanalyst
Robert M. Young
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl – psychoanalyst
Gregory Zilboorg – psychoanalyst
Slavoj Žižek – philosopher
Alenka Zupančič – philosopher

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