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The main schools of psychology
The main schools of psychology are as follows:

1, psychoanalytic psychology.

It was founded by Austrian psychiatrist sigmund freud at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. The publication of The Interpretation of Dreams from 65438 to 0899 is considered as the formal formation of psychoanalytic psychology. 19 19 The establishment of the International Psychoanalytic Society marked the final formation of the psychoanalytic school.

Behaviorism attaches importance to the analysis of normal behavior, psychoanalysis attaches importance to the analysis of abnormal behavior, and emphasizes that psychology should study unconscious phenomena.

2. Humanistic psychology.

It rose in the United States in 1950s, represented by American psychologists Maslow and Rogers.

3. Cognitive psychology.

Cognitive psychology originated from the opposition with behavioral psychology. It is generally believed that cognitive psychology, a new psychological direction, was formally established when Nasser wrote his first book, Cognitive Psychology, in 1967.

Its main theory is information processing theory, so it is also called information processing psychology. Cognitive psychology regards people's psychological activities as an information processing system, which analyzes, stores, transforms and utilizes the information collected by the senses. These activities are called information processing.

4. Behavioral psychology.

The founder is American psychologist Hua John Watson. 19 13, Watson published a paper entitled "Psychology as a Behaviorist" in the American Journal of Psychological Review, expounding his behaviorist views. This paper is generally regarded as a formal declaration of behavioral psychology.