Review of the book: 50 Psychology Classics

It presents a review of a work surprising for its originality and very precise and concise in the appraisals of the most relevant contributions that have given to the Psychology a series of authors and researchers, some of the late nineteenth century, and most of measured and late twentieth century. This work, although published in English initially in 2007, and reissued in Spanish in 2016, nevertheless it preserves all his freshness and his key ideas that the author, Tom Butler-Bowdon, economist classified in the University of Sidney, winner of several prizes, wanted to transmit thinking not so much about the psychologists and teachers but rather about the great public. Across fifty works of others so much authors, doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists the majority, have gone away peeled hundreds of ideas that the own author of the book is selecting and that they include slightly more than one century, examining some of the issues that most interest people about our behavior... what it is that motivates us to act, what makes us feel and act in one way or another, how our brains work and how it is created a sense of self. A review of the main contributions of 50 key authors of Psychology are offered as a whole repertoire of ideas, principles and relevant laws to try to understand human behavior