Lynda L. Warwick - The Everything Psychology Book: Explore the Human Psyche and Understand Why We Do the Things We Do

THE EVERYTHING PSYCHOLOGY BOOK

Explore the human psyche and understand why we do the things we do

Lynda L. Warwick, Ph.D., and Lesley Bolton

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ISBN 10: 1-59337-056-3

ISBN 13: 978-1-59337-056-5 (paperback)

ISBN 13: 978-1-60550-476-6 (EPUB)

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J I H G F E D

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bolton, Lesley.

The everything psychology book / Lesley Bolton.

p. cm.

(An everything series book)

ISBN 1-59337-056-3

ISBN 978-1-60550-476-6 (EPUB)

1. Psychology. I. Title. II. Series: Everything series.

BF121.B58 2004

150 dc22 2004004807

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Psychology Book

Dear Reader:

I'll admit it: I had to drag myself to my very first psychology course. It was just another required course I had to suffer through. But then something remarkable happened; I became hooked. It quickly became my favorite class, and I found myself wanting to learn more and more, to delve deeper into the studies and to further my education in psychology. I no longer saw psychology as a required course but a lesson in life.

It is my hope that you, too, will view psychology as a lesson in life and hunger for those answers it gives us. Whatever your pre-conceived notion of psychology may be, I ask that you put it aside and just read. You will soon find yourself absorbed in this world where questions are answered and an understanding of yourself and others is developed. Far more than just an academic study, psychology is a real-world study whose information can be applied to your everyday life.