Famous Psychologists

'Science of the Mind' or 'Art of the Soul' - whichever you think defines Psychology best - here is a list of our favourite famous practitioners whose profiles are on Geni:

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Sigmund Freud

• Full name: Sigismund Schlomo Freud
• Born: 6 May 1856
• Died: 23 September 1939 (83)
• Nationality: Austrian
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Jacques Lacan

• Full name: Jacques Marie Émile Lacan
• Born:12 April 1901
• Died: 9 September 1981 (80)
• Nationality: French
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Carl Jung

• Full name: Carl Gustav Jung
• Born:26 July 1875
• Died:6 June 1961 (85)
• Nationality: Swiss
• Field: Analytical Psychotherapy

Erik Erikson

• Full name: Erik Homburger Erikson
• Born:15 June 1902
• Died:12 May 1994
• Nationality: German
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Sándor Ferenczi

• Full name: Sándor Ferenczi
• Born:7 July 1873
• Died:22 April 1933 (59)
• Nationality: Hungarian
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Anna Freud

• Full name: Anna Freud
• Born:3 December 1895
• Died:9 October 1982
• Nationality: Austrian
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Alfred Adler

• Full name: Alfred Adler
• Born: February 7, 1870
• Died:May 28, 1937
• Nationality: Austrian
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Victor Frankl

• Full name: Viktor Emil Frankl
• Born:26 March 1905
• Died:2 September 1997 (92)
• Nationality: Austrian
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Bruno Bettelheim

• Full name: Bruno Bettelheim
• Born:28 August 1903
• Died:13 March 1990 (86)
• Nationality: Austrian born (American)
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Wilhelm Reich

• Full name: Wilhelm Reich
• Born:24 March 1897
• Died: 3 November 1957
• Nationality: Austrian
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Marie Jahoda

• Full name: Marie Jahoda
• Born:26 January 1907
• Died:2001 (94)
• Nationality: Austrian born (British)
• Field: Social Psychology

Ivan Pavlov

• Full name: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
• Born:14 September 1849
• Died:27 February 1936 (86)
• Nationality: Russian
• Field: Physiology

B. F. Skinner

• Full name: B. F. Skinner
• Born: Mar. 20, 1904
• Died: Aug. 18, 1990
• Nationality: American
• Field: Behavioural Psychology

Eric Fromm

• Full name: Erich Seligmann Pinchas Fromm
• Born: March. 23, 1900
• Died: March. 18, 1980
• Nationality: German-born American
• Field: Psychoanalyst and Social Psychology

Abraham Maslow

• Full name: Abraham Harold Maslow (Schilofsky)
• Born: April 1, 1908
• Died: June 8, 1970
• Nationality: American
• Field: Humanistic Psychology

Melanie Klein

• Full name: Melanie Reizes Klein
• Born: March 30, 1882
• Died: Sept. 22, 1960
• Nationality: Austrian-born British
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Karen Horney

• Full name: Karen Horney
• Born: Sept. 16, 1885
• Died: Dec. 4, 1952
• Nationality: German-born American
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Carl Ransom Rogers

• Full name: Carl Ransom Rogers
• Born: Jan. 8, 1902
• Died: Feb, 4, 1987
• Nationality: American
• Field: Humanistic Psychology

Jean Piaget

• Full name: Jean William Fritz Piaget
• Born: Aug. 9, 1896
• Died: Sep. 16, 1980
• Nationality: Swiss
• Field: Developmental Psychology

Aaron T. Beck

• Full name: Aaron Temkin Beck
• Born: July 18, 1921
• Died:
• Nationality: American
• Field: Cognitive Therapy Psychiatrist

Albert Ellis

• Full name: Albert Ellis
• Born: Sept. 27, 1913
• Died: July 24, 2007
• Nationality: American
• Field: Rational Emotive Behavior Psychoanalyst

Yehuda Nir

• Full name: Yehuda Nir
• Born: March 31, 1930
• Died: July 19, 2014
• Nationality: Polish born American/Israeli
• Field: Child Psychiatrist, PTSD

Ernest Harburg

• Full name: Ernest Harburg
• Born: 1926
• Died:
• Nationality: American
• Field: Social Psychologist and Epidemiologist

Theodor Reik

• Full name: Theodor Reik
• Born: May 12, 1888
• Died: December 31,1969
• Nationality: Viennese
• Field: Psychoanalysis

Oliver Sacks

• Full name: Oliver Wolf Sacks
• Born: July 9, 1933
• Died: August 30, 2015
• Nationality: British American
• Field: Neuropsychiatrist, author