Clinical Psychology

Groups the schools and movements whose central concern is the assessment, treatment or theory of mental illness and psychological distress, the largest single group among psychology's schools of thought. Belongs here: Analytical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Ego Psychology, Existential Psychology, Humanistic Psychology, Individual Psychology, Object Relations Theory, Positive Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Transpersonal Psychology, Anti-psychiatry, Depth Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Logotherapy, Psychohistory, Psychology of Self and Transactional Analysis. A school concerned with cognition, learning or community structure rather than treatment or the therapeutic relationship is filed under a different branch even when it shares intellectual roots with one of these.