10 Famous Psychologists and Their Landmark Books

Alfred Adler - Understanding Human Nature (1927)

What we think we lack determines what we will become in life

Anna Freud - The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936)

We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in the creation of psychological defenses

Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams (1902)

Dreams reveal the desires of the unconscious mind, and also its great intelligence

William James - Principles of Psychology (1890) Psychology is the science of mental life, which means the science of the self

Carl Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1953)

Our minds are connected to a deeper layer of consciousness which speaks in terms of imagery and myth

Abraham Maslow - Motivation and Personality (1954)

Full mental health is not the absence of neurosis but the fulfilment of our potential

Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority (1974)

Awareness of the natural tendency to obey authority may lessen the chance of blindly following orders that go against your conscience

I.P. Pavlov - Conditioned Reflexes (1927)

In the way that our minds are conditioned, we are less autonomous than we think

Jean Piaget - The Language and Thought of the Child (1966)

Children are not simply “little adults”, thinking less efficiently than us; they think differently

BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity (1953)

Like all animals, humans are shaped by their environment. But we are different in that we have the ability to create new environments