Erik H. Erikson (1902–1994)

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1. Erik H. Erikson

   Author of Childhood and Society, Identity: Youth and Crisis, The Life Cycle Completed

2. Sigmund Freud

   Author of Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Future of an Illusion, Sexuality and The Psychology of Love

3. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Art of Loving, The Fear of Freedom, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

4. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, The Shaking of the Foundations, Protestant Era

5. Alice Miller

   Author of The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries, The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

6. Rollo May

   Author of Love and Will, The Meaning of Anxiety, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

7. R. D. Laing

   Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, The Politics of Experience, Self and Others

8. Mahatma Gandhi

   Author of Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas, Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)

9. Carl R. Rogers

   Author of On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups, Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human

10. Roland H. Bainton

    Author of Here I Stand : A Life of Martin Luther, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

11. Karen Horney

    Author of Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization, Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis, Feminine Psychology (The Norton Library)
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12. Abraham H. Maslow

    Author of Toward A Psychology of Being, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
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13. Virginia Satir

    Author of Peoplemaking, Conjoint Family Therapy, Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond

14. Rudolf Bultmann

    Author of Primitive Christianity in its contemporary setting, Theology of the New Testament

15. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    Author of On Death and Dying, Death: The Final Stage of Growth (Human Development Books)

16. Karl Barth

    Author of Dogmatics in Outline, The Epistle to the Romans

17. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Author of Letters and Papers from Prison, Ethics

18. Irvin D. Yalom

    Author of Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapy, Every Day Gets A Little Closer: A Twice-told Therapy

19. Bruno Bettelheim

    Author of The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self, Love Is Not Enough: The Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children

20. Ernest Becker

    Author of The Denial of Death, Escape from Evil, The Birth and Death of Meaning