Shools of Psychoanalysis

Schools of Psychoanalysis according IPA

The organization of personality is the commun issue of all psychoanalytical developments: the psyche functioning based on the permanent interaction between Nature (biological, instinctive) and Nurture (environmental or socio-cultural). Some authors place greater emphasis on constitucionals factors others on environmental ones and still others on the complementarity.

 

Main Schools of Psychoanalysis are:

• Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939)- Founder. “Freudian school“
• Anna Freud (1895-1982)- Freudian or classicism. “Ego psychology school“
• Melanie Klein ( 1882-1960)- “Object relation school“
• Donald Winnicott (1896-1971)- Winnicottian. “Middle or independent school“
• Alfred Bion (1897-1979)- “Bionnian school“-postkleinian
• Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)- Structuralist. “French school“
• Heinz Kohut (1913-1981)- “Self Psychology school“. Positivism. Self and narcissism

Source IPA International Psychoanalytical Association

 

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