List of psychoanalytical theorists

A few of the most influential psychoanalysts and theorists, philosophers and literary critics who were or are influenced by psychoanlaysis include:

• Alfred Adler- Proponent of individual psychology.
• Karl Abraham – Psychoanalyst.
• Nicolas Abraham – Psychoanalyst.
• Franz Alexander – Psychoanalyst.
• Lou Andreas-Salomé – Psychoanalyst.
• Jacob Arlow
• Michael Balint
• Lee Baxandall
• Ernest Becker
• Therese Benedek
• John Benjamin
• Bruno Bettelheim
• Edward Bibring
• Wilfred Bion
• John Bowlby
• Charles Brenner
• Abraham Brill
• Norman O. Brown
• Ruth Mack Brunswick
• Judith Butler – Philosopher
• Cornelius Castoriadis
• Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel – French psychoanalyst.
• Nancy Chodorow
• David Cooper
• Joan Copjec
• Helene Deutsch
• Françoise Dolto
• Kurt R. Eissler
• Max Eitingon
• Erik Erikson
• Horacio Etchegoyen
• Bracha L. Ettinger
• Ronald Fairbairn
• Franklin Fearing
• Pierre Fédida
• Otto Fenichel

• Sándor Ferenczi
• John Flügel
• S. H. Foulkes
• Anna Freud
• Sigmund Freud – Proponent of psychoanalysis.
• Erich Fromm – Social psychologist.
• Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
• Merton Gill
• Edward Glover
• André Green – Psychoanalyst.
• Ralph R. Greenson
• Otto Gross
• Harry Guntrip
• G. Stanley Hall – Psychologist.
• Heinz Hartmann – Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Paula Heimann
• James Hollis
• Karen Horney- Psychoanalyst
• Luce Irigaray – Philosopher
• Susan Sutherland Isaacs
• Edith Jacobson
• Ernest Jones
• Carl Jung – Psychoanalyst
• Károly Kerényi
• Otto Kernberg
• Paulina Kernberg
• Masud Khan
• Melanie Klein
• Heinz Kohut- Psychoanalyst
• Julia Kristeva – Philosopher
• Jacques Lacan
• Robert Langs
• R. D. Laing
• Jean Laplanche
• Jonathan Lear
• Fred M. Levin Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Bertram D. Lewin
• Hans Loewald
• Rudolf Löwenstein
• Alexander Lowen- Psychoanalyst and psychiatrist

• Margaret Mahler
• Adolf Meyer
• Donald Meltzer
• Karl Menninger
• Stephen A. Mitchell
• Juan-David Nasio
• Robert Neimeyer
• Robert Nemiroff
• Erich Neumann
• Sandor Rado
• Otto Rank
• David Rapaport
• Wilhelm Reich – Psychoanalyst
• Theodor Reik
• Laurence A. Rickels
• Joan Riviere
• Avital Ronell
• Géza Róheim
• Herbert Rosenfeld
• Élisabeth Roudinesco
• Benjamin B. Rubinstein
• Jurgen Ruesch
• Joseph J. Sandler
• Nina Searl
• Harold Searles
• Hanna Segal
• Roy Schafer
• Melitta Schmideberg
• Gabriele M. Schwab- literary critic and psychoanalyst
• Sabina Spielrein
• René Spitz
• Hyman Spotnitz
• John Steiner (psychoanalyst)
• Wilhelm Stekel
• Daniel N. Stern
• Robert J. Stoller
• Harry Stack Sullivan
• Victor Tausk
• Mária Török
• Frances Tustin- Psychoanalyst.
• Vamık Volkan – Psychiatrist.
• Donald Winnicott- Psychoanalyst.
• Gregory Zilboorg
• Slavoj Žižek – Philosopher.