Major Psychotherapy/Psychological Theories and their Progenitors

• Erik Erikson - Psychosocial/Developmental
• Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalysis
• Carl Rogers - Person-Centered/Humanistic
• Albert Ellis - Rational Emotive Behavior
• Aaron Beck - Cognitive
• Irvin Yalom - Existential/Group
• Carl Whitaker - Experiential/Emotion-Focused
• Virginia Satir - Experiential/Emotion-Focused
• Salvador Minuchin - Structural Family
• Murray Bowen - Bowenian/Natural
• Carl Jung - Jungian Analysis
• Milton Erickson - Brief/Reality/Family/Solution-Focused
• Nathan Ackerman - Marriage/Family
• Alfred Adler - Individual/Adlerian
• Mary Ainsworth - Attachment/Family/Developmental
• Viktor Frankl - Logotherapy/Existential
• Karen Horney - Psychodynamics
• Rollo May - Existential
• Abraham Maslow - Maslowian/Humanistic
• Fritz Perls - Gestalt
• B. F. Skinner - Behavior
• Eric Berne - Transactional Analysis
• William Glasser - Reality
• John Gottman - Couples
• John Bowlby - Attachment
• John Watson - Behavior