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Tom Butler's 50 Psychology Classics

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50 Psychology Classics is a brilliant book that brings together the minds of different psychologists and their developments to create masterpiece of theories and understandings. This book or psychology dictionary as it can be called, takes findings from the works of legendary psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, B.F. Skinner and Eric Berne and translates their conclusions to simpler terms. This "dictionary" filters out thousands of psychology books and picks the best 50 and thoroughly explains each theory. Tom Butler even provides some background on each author to help readers understand the author's motivation into coming up with these conclusions. This fantastic book provides theories throughout different centuries, showing the evolution …show more content…

The topic that stood out among all others was the subject of emotion; Why do feel the way we do? How does emotion affect our actions? The top five most influential theories on emotion were Games people play by Eric Berne, Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker, Emotional Blackmail by Susan Forward, The Nature of Love by Harry Harlow, and Working with emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Tom Butler helps provide a thorough explanation of each book and theory. In Games People Play, author and psychiatrist, Eric Berne, introduces us to the three inhabitants of the human mind; he shows us the parent, adult, and child side in everyone. The parent, also known as the superego, controls the mindset of a parental figure or gaurdian. The adult, ego, deals with the ability to reason and handle truth. Last but not least, the child, id, controls the attributes and traits of a child. Berne explains how these three "selves" play a role in our everyday thoughts and decidions. The book also shows how these three "selves" affect our daily commuinication

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