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
• 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