Good collection of chapter-length summaries of 50 classics in psychology. About half of the works are either so dated or so bad that the summary is all that's ever needed from them, but it's still good to know the basics of these books. Several of the summarized books are so good that they're absolutely worth reading in full. Others are more context-dependent. The author did a good job of summarizing (based on a few of the books I've already read; assuming he did an equally good job on the others), so this is a good collection. ( )

50 Psychology Classics is an excellent overview of key texts throughout the field of psychology. Butler-Bowden distills the texts in a way that is lucid and insightful and provides an organizational structure that constantly skips back and forth through chronology. ( )

With 50 Psychology Classics, we are introduced to a distilled version of fifty works in Psychology. They aren’t all classics, so the title might be a bit misleading. The book spans from William James to Walter Mischel. Some of the works are quite recent but have influence in other ways. They might be bestsellers or quoted a great amount. Some of the works are ones that I have read or at least have heard of. This is a pretty good introduction to Psychology in general in that it recommends books and gets you interested in the material. The same guy does this series and I have read the one on Philosophy.

I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it pretty highly. I actually bought a copy of it but I don’t remember where I got it from. ( )

The author's choice of philosophers was curious. I did enjoy hearing about some of these but others seemed less interesting, and more importantly, philosophically challenged. ( )

I liked this anthology of psychology, but I felt it was odd that among the 50 authors chosen, many, if not the majority, came from Harvard. It just can't be statistically... ( )