| Psychiatrist | Specialty |
| Keith Ablow | Adult, adolescent and forensic psychiatry |
| Alfred Adler | Individual psychology |
| Nancy C. Andreasen | Schizophrenia |
| David Ames | Dementia and mental health of older persons |
| Vittorino Andreoli | Psychiatric anthropology |
| Giorgio Antonucci | Criticism of the basis of psychiatry |
| Franco Basaglia | Antipsychiatry |
| Jack Barchas | Biological basis of schizophrenia |
| Aaron Beck | Cognitive therapy |
| Wilfred Bion | Psychoanalysis and group therapy |
| Eugen Bleuler | Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia |
| John Bowlby | Attachment behavior |
| John Cade | Lithium therapy |
| Ugo Cerletti | Electroconvulsive therapy |
| Eli Chesen | Pharmacological psychiatry |
| Edmund Chiu | Huntington's chorea |
| Tim Crow | Biological basis of schizophrenia |
| Pierre Deniker | Chlorpromazine |
| Leon Eisenberg | Psychiatric anthropology |
| Milton Erickson | Hypnosis |
| Jean Etienne Esquirol | Descriptive psychopathology, postnatal depression |
| Frantz Fanon | Effects of discrimination |
| Viktor Frankl | Logotherapy and existential psychotherapy |
| Daniel X. Freedman | Biological psychiatry |
| Christopher Paul Lindsay Freeman | Electroconvulsive therapy |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalysis |
| William Glasser | Reality therapy, Choice theory |
| Max Hamilton | Depression and anxiety scales |
| Pyotr Gannushkin | Classification of personality disorders |
| Kevin Gournay | Schizophrenia, Depression and Cognitive Therapy |
| Karen Horney | Womb envy |
| Pierre Janet | Dissociation |
| Karl Jaspers | Phenomenology |
| Eve Johnstone | Brain changes in schizophrenia |
| Maxwell Jones | Therapeutic community |
| Carl Gustav Jung | Analytical psychology |
| Seymour Kety | Psychiatric genetics |
| Eric R. Kandel | Molecular basis for memory |
| Leo Kanner | Autism |
| Jacob Kasanin | Schizoaffective psychosis |
| Otto Kernberg | Psychoanalysis |
| Arthur Kleinman | Psychiatric anthropologist |
| Emil Kraepelin | Psychiatric methodology |
| Richard von Krafft-Ebing | Sexuality |
| Norman Kreitman | Psychiatric epidemiology |
| Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | Stages of Grief |
| R. D. Laing | Antipsychiatry |
| Heinz Lehmann | Introduced chlorpromazine to North America |
| Karl Leonhard | Classification of Psychosis, cycloid psychosis |
| Andrey Yevgenyevich Lichko | Adolescent psychiatry |
| Aubrey Lewis | Nosology |
| Alwyn Lishman | Neuropsychiatry |
| Abraham Maslow | Humanistic Psychology |
| Niall McLaren | Antipsychiatry |
| Peter McGuffin | Psychiatric genetics |
| Ladislas von Meduna | Pharmacoconvulsions |
| Adolf Meyer | Psychobiology |
| Egas Moniz | Psychosurgery |
| Jacob Moreno | Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy |
| Robin Murray | Schizophrenia |
| John Nemiah | Psychotherapy |
| Ian Oswald | Sleep research |
| Eugene Paykel | Social psychiatry |
| Philippe Pinel | Psychiatric treatment |
| W. H. R. Rivers | Psychiatric anthropologist |
| Martin Roth | Psychogeriatrics |
| Michael Rutter | Child psychiatry |
| Kurt Schneider | Diagnostic criteria |
| Mogens Schou | Lithium therapy |
| Michael Shepherd | Psychiatric epidemiology |
| Peter Sifneos | Psychotherapy |
| Victor Skumin | Skumin syndrome |
| Eliot Slater | Psychiatric epidemiology |
| Robert Spitzer | Diagnostic criteria |
| Solomon H. Snyder | Neurotransmitters |
| Harry Stack Sullivan | Interpersonal psychiatry |
| Hans Steiner | Child Psychiatry |
| Thomas Szasz | Antipsychiatry |
| Eng Seong Tan | Cross-cultural psychiatry |
| Fuller Torrey | Treatment of schizophrenia |
| Ming Tsuang | Psychiatric genetics |
| John Batty Tuke | Neuroscientist |
| Julius Wagner-Jauregg | Treatment of GPI |
| Paul Watzlawick | Communication theory of mental health |
| Simon Wessely | Chronic fatigue syndrome, military psychiatry |
| Donald Winnicott | Child psychiatry, psychoanalysis |
| Sula Wolff | Stress in children |
| Irvin Yalom | Group and existential psychotherapy |
| Sam Zand | Corporate psychiatry |
| Susan Gau | Child and adolescent psychiatry |
