Independent Reading Entry 18

Since finishing and being very pleased with Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods I have begun reading A Primer of Freudian Psychology. This book is basically a summary of Freud's work and ideas. He pretty much founded the field of psychology and began one of the most interesting fields of study to me. I have always been very into psychology, my dad being a forensic psychologist, and there has just always been an intrigue in figuring out how the mind works. The book is organized very well and though it is a very small book it takes much longer than you would think to read it. There is so much information packed into the small print that it takes two or three times of reading to really absorb the information. Freud published volumes and volumes of work and attempting to summarize even a portion of his work would be difficult but this primer accomplishes that. The information is clearly written once you understand the basis of it and it keeps me interested. Pretty much all of Freud's ideas have been disproven or more has been discovered since his time but that doesn't mean his ideas aren't, at the very least, genius and offer a new view of the mind and its development.