Psychologists A–Z

Individual psychology; feelings of inferiority and the striving to overcome them.

Psychosynthesis: subpersonalities, the will and the Self.

Cognitive therapy, the core of CBT; automatic thoughts and the cognitive model of depression.

In episode 1 of the CBT series · Read the notes

Transactional analysis: Parent, Adult and Child ego states; “Games People Play”.

Attachment theory: why early bonds shape how we relate to others.

Rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT), the first of the cognitive therapies; the ABC model.

In episode 1 of the CBT series · Read the notes

Logotherapy; “Man’s Search for Meaning”.

Psychoanalysis: the unconscious, defences, transference.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), part of the third wave of CBT.

In episode 13 of the CBT series

“The Principles of Psychology” (1890); functionalism and the stream of consciousness.

Analytical psychology: archetypes, the collective unconscious, introversion and extraversion.

Cognitive biases and heuristics, with Amos Tversky; Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder.

In episode 11 of the CBT series

Humanistic psychology; the hierarchy of needs and self-actualisation.

Psychodrama and group psychotherapy.

Classical conditioning; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1904.

Gestalt therapy: contact, awareness, here and now.

Client-centred therapy: empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard.

Learned helplessness; one of the founders of positive psychology.

In episode 7 of the CBT series

Operant conditioning: how consequences shape behaviour.

Behaviourism; the “Little Albert” experiment (1920).

In episode 1 of the CBT series · Read the notes

Opened the first psychology laboratory, Leipzig, 1879.

Schema therapy: early maladaptive schemas and modes.

In episode 12 of the CBT series