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A review by scarlet_frost
50 Psychology Classics : The Greatest Books Distilled by Tom Butler-Bowdon
4.0
If you’re interested in Psychology, this covers almost all of the founding fathers and major advances in psychological thought.
The author does his best to summarize the main ideas of each author and their most well known works and often will add other achievements at the end. He also does a short bio of the authors at the end of each chapter.
I thought that the complicated psychological ideas were explained in a way that just about anyone could understand while keeping enough quotations to get the sense of the original authors style and thoughts.
My only gripe with this is not a writing one, just that it’s hard to get through this because of the complex subject matter and the various different ways views. Trying to absorb it all can be mentally taxing. Take breaks, is my suggestion or your brain might malfunction.
Overall, thus was a really great refresher for me and allowed me to deepen my knowledge of many of the household names of psychology, as well as learning about newer ones I hadn’t heard of before. Unfortunately, it’s added a lot of books to be TBR. Haha
The author does his best to summarize the main ideas of each author and their most well known works and often will add other achievements at the end. He also does a short bio of the authors at the end of each chapter.
I thought that the complicated psychological ideas were explained in a way that just about anyone could understand while keeping enough quotations to get the sense of the original authors style and thoughts.
My only gripe with this is not a writing one, just that it’s hard to get through this because of the complex subject matter and the various different ways views. Trying to absorb it all can be mentally taxing. Take breaks, is my suggestion or your brain might malfunction.
Overall, thus was a really great refresher for me and allowed me to deepen my knowledge of many of the household names of psychology, as well as learning about newer ones I hadn’t heard of before. Unfortunately, it’s added a lot of books to be TBR. Haha