Hi everyone! I have kind of a vague request but I’m in a book club and we’re reading a book with the topic ‘psychology’ this month. We are all laymen with no psychology background. I’ve poked around and a lot of the popular psychology books seem to be full of pseudoscience or just misinformation. I am looking for a book that talks about missteps and corrections in the field of psychology, one about psychology in general that is well researched and backed up, or one of the pop psychology books that has an established body of criticism about it I can also read and I can bring to discussion.
Thank you in advance!!
by fyresflite
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I liked The Righteous Mind.
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb might be what you’re looking for
Critical Thinking in Psychology – 2006
by Robert J. Sternberg PhD
Uniquely Human by Barry Prizant is a wonderful book on understanding autism through a positive lens and supporting autistic people by understanding their needs instead of seeking to change them or their behavior. He is a practitioner and researcher going back decades and he draws from his clinical experience. I think it’s a great book for anyone wanting to better understand neurodiversity but an essential book for anyone working in the field. It’s also very readable, funny, and hopeful. He reads the audiobook which is also great.
Psych by Paul Bloom
The Balanced Brain by Camilla Nord
Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker
Everything is obvious: why common sense is nonsense
Duncan J Watts