Some the most influential psychoanalysts and theorists, philosophers and literary critics who were or are influenced by psychoanalysis include:
Karl Abraham – psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham – psychoanalyst Alfred Adler – founder of individual psychology Theodor Adorno – philosopher Salman Akhtar- psychoanalyst Franz Alexander – psychoanalyst Louis Althusser – philosopher Lou Andreas-Salomé – psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu – psychoanalyst Lisa Appignanesi Jacob Arlow Michael Balint – psychoanalyst Lee Baxandall Ernest Becker Jessica Benjamin – psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim Wilfred Bion – psychoanalyst Harold Bloom Christopher Bollas – psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte — psychoanalyst John Bowlby – psychoanalyst Charles Brenner André Breton Abraham Brill – psychoanalyst Deborah Britzman Norman O. Brown Ruth Mack Brunswick – psychoanalyst Judith Butler – philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel – psychoanalyst Nancy Chodorow David Cooper Joan Copjec Gilles Deleuze – philosopher Jacques Derrida – philosopher Helene Deutsch – psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto – psychoanalyst Terry Eagleton Kurt R. Eissler – psychoanalyst Max Eitingon – psychoanalyst Erik Erikson – psychoanalyst Horacio Etchegoyen – psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger Ronald Fairbairn – psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida Shoshana Felman Otto Fenichel – psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi – psychoanalyst John Flügel – psychoanalyst John Forrester S. H. Foulkes – psychoanalyst Anna Freud – psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud – founder of psychoanalysis Erich Fromm – social psychologist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann – psychoanalyst Jane Gallop
Carol Gilligan Edward Glover – psychoanalyst André Green – psychoanalyst Jay Greenberg – psychoanalyst Ralph R. Greenson – psychoanalyst Otto Gross Elizabeth Grosz Stephen Grosz – psychoanalyst Félix Guattari – philosopher Harry Guntrip – psychoanalyst Jürgen Habermas – philosopher G. Stanley Hall – psychologist Heinz Hartmann – psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Paula Heimann – psychoanalyst James Hillman - founder of Archetypal Psychology James Hollis - psychoanalyst Karen Horney – psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray – philosopher Susan Sutherland Isaacs – psychoanalyst Edith Jacobson – psychoanalyst Arthur Janov Adrian Johnston – philosopher Ernest Jones – psychoanalyst Carl Jung – founder of analytical psychology Eric Kandel Károly Kerényi Otto Kernberg – psychoanalyst Paulina Kernberg – psychoanalyst Masud Khan – psychoanalyst Melanie Klein – psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut – psychoanalyst Joel Kovel – psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva – psychoanalyst and philosopher Jacques Lacan – psychoanalyst Robert Langs – psychoanalyst R. D. Laing Jean Laplanche – psychoanalyst Darian Leader – psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear – psychoanalyst Claude Lévi-Strauss Hans Loewald – psychoanalyst Henry Zvi Lothane Alexander Lowen – psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Rudolf Löwenstein – psychoanalyst Jean-François Lyotard – philosopher Margaret Mahler – psychoanalyst Maud Mannoni – psychoanalyst Octave Mannoni – psychoanalyst Herbert Marcuse – philosopher Donald Meltzer – psychoanalyst Karl Menninger Adolf Meyer Juliet Mitchell – psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell Toril Moi
Juan-David Nasio Erich Neumann Susie Orbach – psychoanalyst Joy Osofsky – psychoanalyst Fritz Perls Adam Phillips – psychoanalyst Sandor Rado – psychoanalyst Otto Rank – psychoanalyst David Rapaport Wilhelm Reich – psychoanalyst Theodor Reik – psychoanalyst Laurence A. Rickels Paul Ricœur – philosopher Philip Rieff Joan Riviere – psychoanalyst Géza Róheim Avital Ronell Duane Rousselle - psychoanalyst and sociologist Jacqueline Rose Herbert Rosenfeld – psychoanalyst Élisabeth Roudinesco Benjamin B. Rubinstein Jurgen Ruesch Hanns Sachs – psychoanalyst Joseph J. Sandler – psychoanalyst Jean-Paul Sartre – philosopher Nina Searl Harold Searles – psychoanalyst Hanna Segal – psychoanalyst Roy Schafer – psychoanalyst Melitta Schmideberg – psychoanalyst Mark Solms Sabina Spielrein – psychoanalyst René Spitz – psychoanalyst Hyman Spotnitz Martin Stanton – psychoanalyst John Steiner – psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel – psychoanalyst Daniel N. Stern Robert J. Stoller – psychoanalyst Alix Strachey – psychoanalyst James Strachey – psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan – psychoanalyst Neville Symington – psychoanalyst Arthur Tansley Victor Tausk – psychoanalyst Clara Thompson – psychoanalyst Mária Török – psychoanalyst Lionel Trilling Frances Tustin – psychoanalyst Vamık Volkan – psychiatrist Donald Winnicott – psychoanalyst Robert M. Young Elisabeth Young-Bruehl – psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg – psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek – philosopher Alenka Zupančič – philosopher