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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