The Bedside Book of Psychology

An accessible, easy-to-follow illustrated guide to the 125 most important milestones in psychology.

Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a topic you've always been interested in. With 125 concise, informative, and entertaining entries, The Bedside Book of Psychology explores the key theories, discoveries, and experiments, influential personalities, and seminal publications in the field over the millennia. Wade Pickren covers a wide range of topics and culturesfrom ancient philosophies of psychotherapeutic well-being such as shamanism, to mesmerism, multiple personality disorder, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Pavlov's conditioning experiments, mirror neurons, positive psychology, sexual fluidity, and climate-crisis psychologyall in an accessible, conversational voice. Includes seventy-five black-and-white illustrations throughout.

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