Gestalt psychology , Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism

                                       

Gestalt psychology , Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism

                                        Gestalt Psychology 

                           Gestalt – “good figure” psychology                                                        

Gestalt psychology is a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. Originating in the work of Max Wertheimer, Gestalt psychology formed partially as a response to the structuralism of Wilhelm Wundt. The development of this area of psychology was influenced by a number of thinkers, including Immanuel Kant, Ernst Mach and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

                                                   Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).  Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining “insight”
                                                        

                                                  
                                      Behaviorism

Behaviorism - the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.

Proposed by John B. Watson 

Watson believed that phobias were learned