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'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