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, sociologist
Bruno Bettelheim
Wilfred Bion – psychoanalyst
Harold Bloom
Christopher Bollas – 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