ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the different psychological schools, arranged approximately according their time of origin. These schools include structuralism, functionalism, the evolutionary school, the psychodynamic school, the behavioral school, the biological school, the cognitive school, the sociocultural school, Gestalt psychology, and the humanistic school. Characteristic features of each school will be briefly discussed, including its important ideas, and its contribution to shaping the field of psychology, its current place in current psychology, criticism or limitations of that school, and its clinical application if still applicable.
