Psychology

The history of psychology unfolds here through one hundred stories of the thinkers who tried to make sense of the mind - a world that exists only in our heads, filled with thoughts, dreams and emotions science cannot directly observe. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung developed therapies for mental illness, Jean Piaget traced how a child's mental life develops, and Philip Zimbardo demonstrated how readily good people can do harm. The book carries that story forward to today, where brain scanners and big data are opening new ways to understand personality and treat mental illness.