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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist
Jean Tatlock
Jean Tatlock
American psychiatrist
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
Karl Deisseroth
American psychiatrist and bioengineer
Alfred Adler.
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychiatrist
Harry Stack Sullivan
American psychiatrist
Patrick McGorry
Irish-born Australian psychiatrist
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author, and feminist
Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychologist
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
American psychologist
Pierre-Félix Guattari
French psychiatrist and philosopher
Ernst Kretschmer
German psychiatrist
Emil Kraepelin
German psychiatrist
Eugen Bleuler
Eugen Bleuler
Swiss psychiatrist
Adolf Meyer.
Adolf Meyer
American psychiatrist
Thomas Story Kirkbride
American psychiatrist
Leo Kanner
Austrian-American psychiatrist
Hermann Rorschach
Swiss psychiatrist