Steven Pinker (1954)

James Redfield (1950) author of "the Celestine Prophecy"

Robert Plutchik (19??)

Raymond Moody (1944) is most famous as an author of books about life

after death and near-death experiences (a term which he coined in 1975)

Julia Kristeva (1941) linguist and psychoanalyst,

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934)

Paul Ekman (1934) developed the Facial Action Coding System

(FACS) to taxonomize every conceivable human facial expression

Philip Zimbardo (1933)

Robert Rosenthal (1933) author of "On the Social Psychology of the Self-Fulfilling

Prophecy: Further Evidence for Pygmalion Effects and their Mediating Mechanisms"

Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)

Luce Irigaray (1930) feminist and psychoanalyst,

Félix Guattari (1930-1992)

Aušra Augustinavičiute (1927) is the founder of Socionics which is based on

Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types, Freud's theory of the conscious

and subconscious, and Antoni Kepinski's theory of information metabolism

Ernest Becker (1925-1975) created the science of evil

Julian Jaynes (1920-1997) is best known for his book "The Origin of Consciousness in the

Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", in which he argues that ancient peoples were not

conscious as we consider the term today, and that the change of human thinking occurred

within the last few thousand years, possibly even within recorded historical times

Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

Hans Eysenck (1916-1997)

John C. Lilly (1915-2001)

Jerome Bruner (1915) his ideas are based on categorization. "To perceive is to categorize,

to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize"

Clare W. Graves (1914-1986) originator of the Level Theory of Personality

Paul D. MacLean (1913) defined the triune concept of the brain

Albert Ellis (1913) is a psychologist who originated Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT),

a theory which holds that one's personal beliefs and evaluations control one's feelings

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Gerda Alexander (1908-1994)

Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was the founder of logotherapy and

Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy

B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)

Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was a developmental psychologist and

psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human

beings, and for coining the phrase 'identity crisis'

Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) 'Rogerian psychotherapy'

became widely influential, embraced for its humanistic approach

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) theorist of psychoanalysis,

Milton Hyland Erickson (1901-1980) developed a type of hypnotherapy

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) psychologist and humanistic philosopher

Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)

Anna Freud (1895-1982) was the daughter of Sigmund Freud and the pioneer of child psychoanalysis

Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956) his research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and

cultural values in the United States especially in the 1960s and was an important influence on the sexual revolution

Frederick Perls (1893-1970) coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for

the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls

Karl Lashley (1890-1958) his failure to find a single biological locus of memory

(or "engram", as he called it) suggested to him that memories were not localized

to one part of the brain, but were widely distributed throughout the cortex

Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) was the most influential of the gestalt psychologists,

Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974) was the founder of the transpersonal

psychology movement known as Psychosynthesis

Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887-1971) was the president of the society for psychical research,

Wolfgang Koehler (1887-1967) gestalt psychologist

Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955) was responsible for the standardized mean and standard deviation

of IQ scores used today, as opposed to the mental age system originally used by Binet, as well he is

known for the development of the Thurstone scale, the first formal technique for measuring an attitude

Karen Horney (1885-1952) challenged many of Freud's ideas as being misogynist, particularly

his concept of penis envy, she countered with the claim of "womb envy", that males perceived

females as being inferior largely due to males' inability to give birth

Johannes H. Schultz (1884-1970) invented autogenic training

Otto Rank (1884-1939) was one of Sigmund Freud's closest aides and later colleagues and finally critic

Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) developed the projective test known as the Rorschach Inkblot Test

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology

John Watson (1878-1958) established the psychological school of behaviorism

Lewis Terman (1877-1956) was best known for inventing the

Stanford-Binet IQ test, which popularized IQ tests in America

Robert Mearns Yerkes (1876-1956) studied the intelligence and social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees

Carl Jung (1875-1961) founder of analytical psychology,

William McDougall (1871-1938) invented hormic psychology,

Alfred Adler (1870-1937) founder of the school of individual psychology

Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics,

as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, he also

did seminal work on human intelligence, including the discovery of the g factor

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)

Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927) noted the role of the hippocampus in memory and founded the field

of psycho reflexology, transferring Pavlov's work on dogs to humans, and discovered Bekhterev's disease

Alfred Binet (1857-1911) was the inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of today's IQ test

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) founder of psychoanalysis,

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) his laboratory discovered the pathologic basis of Alzheimers

disease, as well as what we now know as schizophrenia, dementia praecox

Alexius Meinong (1853-1920) founder of Gegenstandstheorie

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) is considered the father of modern neuroscience

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) pioneered experimental

study of memory, and discovered the forgetting curve

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) was a Russian physiologist who made important contributions

to psychology such as describing the phenomenon now known as "conditioning" in experiments with dogs

Edmund Gurney (1847-1888)

William James (1842-1910)

Gustave le Bon (1841-1931)

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1832-1920) was the founder of experimental psychology

Roberto Ardigo (1828-1920) Psychology as a Positive Science

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) was the teacher of Sigmund Freud

Alexander Bain (1818-1903)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) developed utilitarianism

James Braid (1795-1860) coined the term and invented the procedure known as hypnotism

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was the founder of utilitarianism

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)

Rudolphus Goclenius (1547-1628)

Juan Huarte de San Juan (1530-1592)