Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

A tame introduction.

This book is a very good comprehensive guide to the modern psych field. Basically all major schools of psychology are explained in a competent and easy to digest manner and are applied in a way that the average person can get some use out of them. It also makes sure to explain where the field is more locked in and where certain theories are hotly contested, and Bloom does a great job adding his own voice without being biased from the overall goal.

The only time I think Bloom gets too in the weeds is during how children learn languages, which he randomly just devotes a chunk of the book to very specific information about language learning. Regardless, my go to recommendation for people to learn some shit about psychology and stop annoying me with all the dumb stuff they don't know about