Clinical Psychology

It is a reaction against past practices that tended to focus on mental illness and emphasized maladaptive behavior and negative thinking.

Existential therapy is a form of psychotherapy focused on the client's lived experience of their subjective reality.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst

Object relations theory is a school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development.

He is known best for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatry diagnoses.

Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with them.

Solution-focused (brief) therapy (SFBT) is a brief form of psychotherapy developed in the late 1970s and 1980s by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg that focuses on helping clients identify goals and practical solutions rather than analyzing problems.

Reality therapy (RT) is an approach to psychotherapy and counseling developed by William Glasser in the 1960s.

Emotionally focused therapy and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) are related humanistic approaches to psychotherapy that aim to resolve emotional and relationship issues with individuals, couples, and families.

Psychodrama is an acting method, often used as a psychotherapy, in which clients use spontaneous dramatization, role playing, and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives.

Multimodal therapy (MMT) is an approach to psychotherapy devised by psychologist Arnold Lazarus, who originated the term behavior therapy in psychotherapy.

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is a form of psychological therapy initially developed in the United Kingdom by Anthony Ryle.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that began with efforts to treat personality disorders and interpersonal conflicts.

Schema therapy is a form of integrative psychotherapy developed by Jeffrey E. Young for use in the treatment of personality disorders and other chronic conditions such as long-term depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

Structural family therapy (SFT) is a method of psychotherapy developed by Salvador Minuchin which addresses problems in functioning within a family.

Strategic Family Therapy is a modality of family therapy that focuses on problem-solving in relationship dynamics and utilizing behavioral solutions to facilitate change in the family.

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is a non-pathologizing approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz.

Psychosynthesis is a framework and approach to psychology developed by Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli.

Mentalization-based treatment or Mentalization-based therapy (MBT) is an integrative form of psychotherapy, bringing together aspects of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, systemic and ecological approaches.

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a system of psychotherapy developed by Paul Gilbert that integrates techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with concepts from evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, Buddhist psychology, and neuroscience.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick.

Transference (German: Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which repetitions of old feelings, attitudes, desires, or fantasies that someone displaces are subconsciously projected onto a here-and-now person.

Countertransference is a widely established concept originating in Freudian psychotherapy, in which a therapist's own history and emotions affect how they feel about and treat the patient.

In psychology, avoidance coping is a coping mechanism and form of experiential avoidance.

The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.

Boris Mayer Levinson (July 1, 1907, April 2, 1984) was an American psychologist who accidentally discovered the therapeutic benefits of animal-assisted therapy.

Clinical psychology is the applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand, and treat psychological conditions in clinical practice.

It is often critical to build community relationships to understand the context and enable the collection of appropriate data to supporting the consulting relationship.

The field was founded in 1969 and includes a broad interdisciplinary foundation, drawing on clinical, developmental, social, cognitive, behavioral, counseling, community and school psychology.

Clinical neuropsychology is a specialized form of clinical psychology focused on research as a focal point of treatment within the field.

led to the development of the "cathartic method" (also referred to as the "talking cure") for psychiatric disorders

was an American clinical psychologist

the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy

He developed interest in psychotherapy and later developed a time limited therapy which can be offered in the National Health Service.

Assagioli's work has been shown to be effectively applicable in such fields as psychotherapy and treatment

Richard C. Schwartz (born 14 September 1949), is an American systemic family therapist, academic, author, and creator of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) branch of therapy.

was a British clinical psychologist, couples therapist and author who lived and worked in Canada

psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory

Reich became deputy director of Freud's outpatient clinic, the Vienna Ambulatorium.

Rank established psychotherapy practices in Paris and New York

to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife

He described the personality traits and psychopathology that result from the oral and anal stages of development

known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem

Anne Roe Simpson (1904 - May 29, 1991) was an American clinical psychologist and researcher who studied creativity and occupational psychology.

Mary Lea Trump (born May 3, 1965) is an American psychologist, author, and political commentator.

James M. Cantor is an American-Canadian clinical psychologist and sexologist specializing in hypersexuality and paraphilias.

Allison G. Harvey is an Australian psychologist.

Elizabeth Lillian Jeglic is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.

He later attended Union Theological Seminary for a BD during 1938, and Teachers College, Columbia University for a PhD in clinical psychology in 1949.

He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and was certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).

He is considered a founding figure in the history of clinical psychology and is best known for his theory of personality, personal construct psychology.

She made contributions in psychology of women, clinical psychology, and educational psychology.

Reuven Feuerstein (Hebrew: ראובן פוירשטיין; August 21, 1921, April 29, 2014) was a Romanian-born Israeli clinical, developmental, and cognitive psychologist, known for his theory of intelligence.

She was a Sociology and Clinical Psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, until 2005 and served as Professor Emeritus until her retirement.

Molly Harrower (born Mary Rachel Harrower; January 25, 1906, February 20, 1999) was an American clinical psychologist.

George Wilson Albee (December 20, 1921, July 8, 2006) was an American clinical psychologist who believed societal factors such as unemployment, racism, sexism, and the myriad forms of exploitation of people by people were the major cause of mental illness.

Dr. Ekman receives his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Adelphi University.

He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods.