A Degree in a Book: Psychology

Definitely one of my favorite books, its very well explained

I read a lot and listen to Philosophy oriented media such as History of Philosophy Without any Gaps, and History of Africana and India Philosophy. The Order of Time and Johnathan Haidt three books all gave me a insight and interest. This book expanded on things included in those books and well worth it.

The child likes it very much

Covers all contents in psychology

Explica de forma fácil y entretenida un recorrido muy completo y visual por la historia de la psicología

WIth a huge emphasis on the history of psychology, the average reader can get totally lost. First, loads of information about a theory, then a vague hint that, well, this isn't actually true. Take the chapter on Biological Psychology: 20 pages of its history (and basically where they all got it wrong) followed by 3 pages about modern understanding of the brain (which in reality is most of our understanding).So despite the author continually repeating "impossible to cover such a huge subject in one book" almost in every chapter, there a huge chunks of the book actually about mistaken theory of our past psychologists and so useless to most, if not downright confusing.This is littered with seemingly helpful diagrams, which are not referred to, whole page pictures of ancient psychologists and actually very little useful information. A degree in a book, no. A pretty overview of the history of the subject of psychology, not Psychology itself, yes.A shabby publication.