
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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