Psychoanalyst

Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut (1913–1981) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist whose work fundamentally transformed psychoanalytic theory and practice, particularly in the understanding and treatment of narcissistic disturbances and severe personality disorders.

Anna Freud

Anna Freud (1895–1982) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst and the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud. While she began her career as a schoolteacher, she became one of the most influential figures

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded Individual Psychology, a major school of psychoanalytic thought that emphasized the social nature of human beings and the drive

Erik Erikson

Erik Homburger Erikson (1902-1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst best known for his theory of psychosocial development. Growing up with his mother and a series of stepfathers after

Wilfred Bion

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897-1979) was a British psychoanalyst whose original contributions transformed psychoanalytic understanding of psychotic states, group dynamics, and the nature of thought itself. Working at the Tavistock Clinic

Donald Winnicott

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was a British pediatrician and psychoanalyst whose work fundamentally transformed our understanding of child development, mother-infant relationships, and the nature of psychological health. Though he never

Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, one of the major schools of psychoanalytic theory. Jung's work has had a profound impact on

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst whose rereading of Freud reshaped psychoanalysis in the twentieth century. His work connected psychoanalysis to linguistics, philosophy, structuralism, and questions of subjectivity, desire, and

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers in the modern history of the mind. His work reorganized discussions of memory, sexuality, dreams, symptoms,

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein was one of the most important psychoanalysts of the twentieth century and a decisive figure in the development of object relations theory. Her work transformed the understanding of