THE 100 BEST PSYCHOLOGY BOOKS EVER - GEOGRAFÍA - 2025

Today I come with a list of psychology books from various areas: general, clinical, educational, social, for adolescents, for beginners… One of the best ways to learn is by reading; you can learn in no time what the author of the book has studied for years.

You then have two options; Either you learn on your own and experience, which will take years, or you learn by reading, which will take hours. Also, if you adopt the habit, it will be something simple and pleasant.

In fact, almost all the most important psychologists in history have written one or more books: Freud, Rogers, Zimbardo, Csikszentmihalyi, Beck, Mischel, Ellis, Jung, Erikson, Allport, Skinner…

As for the order: don't look at him. All the books on this list are very good and worth reading. If you think there should be another book, leave it in the comment section and I'll add it.

The best psychology books

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

Psychological book where Frankl tells of his own experience in a concentration camp. His reflections hide great depth.

Your wrong zones, Wayne Dyer

You will be able to know what are the acts that make your happiness not full. In addition, it gives you several tips to improve this.

The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud

In one of his masterpieces, Sigmund Freud explains "a psychological technique that makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that, if this procedure is applied, every dream appears as a psychic product provided with meaning."

The self and the id, Sigmund Freud

One of Freud's most famous books, which has become one of the main pillars of psychoanalytic psychology. In it a new anatomy for the human psyche is explained and detailed.

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Book that analyzes what truly makes people happy. It introduces the idea that happiness is achieved through a mental state, which he calls "flow".

The Process of Becoming a Person: My Therapy Technique, Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers talks about the importance of client-centered therapy, one of his most famous ideas, for which the psychologist must do everything he can to try to help the patient.

Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

Very interesting concept that is detailed to us by the hand of Daniel Goleman. The language is simple, easy and direct, as well as detailed.

Emotional intelligence is a totally unmissable book for any lover of psychology.

One of our essentials.

The Lucifer Effect: The Why of Evil, Philip Zimbardo

The result of the experiment in "The Stanford Prison Case" has become this book. In it, he talks about the morality of the human being and the variation of the personality according to the context.

Motivation and Personality, Abraham H. Maslow

What is it that moves the human person? Why does it do what it does? This and many other answers are explained in this book by the great Abraham Maslow.

Emotions revealed, Paul Ekman

Non-verbal communication expert Paul Ekman published one of his best writings in 2003. Emotions revealed is about a description of the different foundations of emotions and their foundations in the way they reflect on our face.

The Power of Habits, Charles Duhigg

Habits determine how our life will unfold. This is why we must change them if what we want is to transform ourselves.

The Power of Introverts, Susan Cain

Thanks to Susan Cain you will be able to understand a little better this character that emerges in many people and that determines several of the actions we carry out.

The surprising truth about what motivates us, Daniel Pink

People think that the greatest personal motivation is money, but Daniel Pink does not think so. After an investigation that has taken decades, he has discovered that there are other types of motivations and concerns.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Kevin Dutton

Psychopathy is one of the most striking traits in the world of psychology. How does it work? What is going through the minds of psychopaths? All of this is explained in this interesting book.

Influence, Robert Cialdini

The power of some people to influence is undeniable. Why do we say "yes" so many times when we want to say no to them? This persuasiveness is one of the most desirable qualities of the 21st century.

How the mind works, Steven Pinker

Book published in 1997 that talks about the ins and outs of the mind and all that it hides. Written in a simple and useful language, you will understand perfectly everything that it hides.

The language of gestures, Flora Davis

Flora Davis's book that details the language of gestures: what they are and how they work. It's straightforward, simple, and to the point. Totally recommendable

Redirect, Timothy D. Wilson

Nothing better to describe the subject of this book than the words of Timothy Wilson: “Our experience in the world is shaped by our interpretation of it and by the stories we tell ourselves. These stories can and often get distorted into a destructive path that prevents us from leading a balanced and happy life.

Predictably irrational, Dan Ariely

Book only available in English, but still easy to read due to its easy understanding. His topic, unusual, talks about the behaviors that human beings take when making economic decisions.

The art of loving, Erich Fromm

Work that collects everything that love can suppose. Fromm deals with issues such as the one that is processed by both the couple and the family or even by God.

Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Sigmund Freud

A whole classic. It is about the mistakes that people make every day when it comes to forgetting words, linguistic lapses and so on.

Man and his symbols, Carl Gustav Jung

Quite generic book but that focuses on some themes, as its name indicates related to symbols, in addition to talking about archetypes or the analysis of dreams.

Visions of the Future, Abraham H. Maslow

Set of essays, lectures, letters and excerpts by Abraham Maslow that have been collected in a total of 312 pages.

Three Essays for a Sex Theory, Sigmund Freud

Basic guide to understand human sexuality. All the concepts and types of love that can arise are perfectly defined in this book of just ninety pages.

59 seconds, Richard Wiseman

As its title indicates, what will make you see this book is that your life can change in less than a minute. It is also based on different scientific data.

Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud

Set of five lectures conducted by one of the greatest psychologists in all of history. They were all delivered in 1909 at Clark University.

The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Richard Rio and Russ Hudson

The well-known "nine personality types" are perfectly defined in this book, being explained and developed in this useful psychological guide.

Lucid Dreaming Exploration, Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold

Lucid dreaming occurs when you are aware that you are dreaming and can manipulate the dream. LaBerge shows her research and how to have these lucid dreams.

The man who mistook his wife for a hat, Oliver Sacks

One of the most famous psychology books. It describes the different pathologies that a psychologist can find in a consultation. The writing formula is 20 stories like a novel.

Mass Psychology and Analysis of the Self, Sigmund Freud

Set of three works by Sigmund Freud, influenced by the events that took place during the First World War. Said essay studies the member as a kind of aggregation to different social groups.

The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud

Critical analysis of religion and culture. In this study, the role that faith can play in the life of man is observed. The book, to say the least, is a curious read.

More Plato and Less Prozac, Loy Marinoff

How to use philosophy and philosophical methods as a way of life. With it you can help yourself to overcome the different problems and questions that arise. Lou Marinoff propose to use her to enjoy a greater inner balance.

Revolutionary Science, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

A new kind of science flows in today's societies. These are reflected in a book that has as references the ideas of the well-known psychologist Lev Vygotsky.

The Self-Realized Man, Abraham H. Maslow

Maslow's pyramid has as its last step the long-awaited self-realization. This is the ultimate goal of the human being and what the famous psychologist emphasizes in this work.

Introduction to psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud

Book that serves as an opening to know the psychonalalithic conception. Work highly recommended for being created in full intellectual maturity of the author.

Book that combines both entertainment and scientific dissemination. The theory that is shown between its pages centers on an idea that people lie due to irrational criteria and impulses.

Eastern Psychotherapy, Western Psychotherapy, Alan Watts

Union of different visions of psychotherapy and the schools of Zen, Tao, Buddhism and Mahayama. The confrontation will end in endless similarities.

Self-efficacy, Albert Bandura

As its subtitle says, "How do we face the changes in today's society?" You will find the answer between the pages of a book that talks about the cruising speed carried by today's societies.

Think fast, think slow, Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman reviews the two types of thinking - fast and slow - and various investigations that led him to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Attention and effort, Daniel Kahneman

The Nobel Prize in economics gives us the keys to achieve what we propose through two techniques: attention and effort.

Beyond culture, Edward T. Hall

Work that considers new ways of perceiving the human experience and how to revalue our values. Cultural implications and human thoughts take center stage.

From Animals to Gods, Yuval Noah Harari

A kind of hybrid between history, anthropology and psychology. It explains how the ways of thinking that now occur in today's society have been created in a totally interesting evolutionary review.

The deceptions of the mind, SL Macknik and S. Martínez Conde

Human beings learn from teachings, but it is true that we also learn from mistakes. This is collected through different studies that explain that there are a series of blind spots that make us progress.

The art of embittering life, Paul Watzlawic

Easy and enjoyable book, thanks to Paul Watzlawic you will know all that set of attitudes that lead you day after day to be unhappy.

Flourish, Martin EP Seligman

Like Dafne Catalunya, Martin Seligman helps us with the goal of feeling a little better about ourselves. Achieving wellness is the end of this book.

Creative Schools, Ken Robinson

The current educational system offers multiple shortcomings. For this reason, Ken Robinson offers us a new method of teaching, much more innovative and revolutionary based on the student's experience.

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

A best seller with more than five million sales. As you can guess, The Power of Now explains the importance of what is happening right now, the most valuable thing we have.

What makes us human? explains the different behaviors that make a person the way he is. All this related from the point of view of neuroscience.

The paradox of choosing, Barry Schwart

Have you ever been overwhelmed by the idea of ​​having to choose from several options? Man often feels incapable of making a decision, and Barry Schwart tells you about this in The Paradox of Choice.

The clean sweep, Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker analyzes the idea that human nature does not have innate characteristics and that ethical aspects affect the vision of life and how we develop it before society.

Obedience to the authority of Stanley Milgram

Why do we obey? Is it healthy to do this? How is it produced? How can we change it? If you find it interesting, these and many more questions are answered in Stanley Milgram's work.

True happiness - Seligman

In Authentic Happiness, Seligman talks about how positive psychology affects different paradigms of emotions. It also explains how it can always be cultivated.

The Red Book, Carl Jung

The most important work of his career. It was found in a manuscript on a folio bound in red leather. In it he talks about his imaginative experiences between 1913 and 1016.

How to Achieve Wholeness-Carl Rogers

One of his nearly twenty books that he wrote while alive. On this occasion, he brings together his greatest theories to explain how to achieve fullness as conscious people.

Why do we work ?, Barry Schwartz

Why do we work? is the question that Barry Schwartz asks himself in this book and which he tries to answer. Are we obliged to do so? How necessary is it to carry out this activity for our life? How does it affect us?

The completed life cycle, Erikson

Erikson speaks, in what is one of his most famous books, about the human being and its different stages in its development: rewards, challenges, challenges, problems, etc…

Cognitive Therapy of Depression by Aaron T. Beck

Work resulting from years and years of work and research. It is one of the most comprehensive books on depression. Aaron has devoted himself to studying both theories of classics and patient experiences.

Step-by-step family therapy - Virginia Satir

How should we behave as a family? Virginia Satir summarizes over 276 pages a series of tips to make family life much more bearable, and in this way we can apply successful therapies.

The Gestalt Approach and Witness Therapy, Fritz Perls

Fritz Perls's book that consists of two clearly differentiated parts: the first on an improvement on his famous theory of neurosis, and a second in which he makes transcripts of real sessions of different patient profiles.

The Candy Test, Walter Mischel

Book that reflects the famous theory of candy self-control. If a boy receives one and is given the choice between eating it immediately or waiting five minutes and eating two, what will he do?

The psychology of the child, Jean Piaget

Elaborated over forty years, in The Psychology of the Child, Piaget speaks, as his title indicates, about the psychology that surrounds the child and all that it entails. It is a brilliant study.

Understanding life, Alfred Adler

Considered one of the founders of modern psychology, Adler brings with his book a new approach to personality. He studies them in their social context and on an equal basis, exposing their main theories.

When we lie, Robert Feldman

Here you can discover a series of examples drawn from the present about the many lies that society makes. As its author explains, learning to lie is part of our socialization process.

You can be happy, Albert Ellis

Do you want to become happy? Albert Ellis explains in his book that most of the sufferings and disorders that people suffer are totally exaggerated and unnecessary. We punish ourselves too much, and that is why Albert Ellis tries to guide us through more than two hundred pages.

Writings on spirituality and transcendence, Gustav Jung

Jung tries to explain in this book that beliefs are not only limited to religion, but that they are an important aspect of psychic life.

Man's Dilemma, Rollo May

Rollo May, one of the fathers of existentialism in psychotherapy, speaks in his book about the dilemmas of the human being. These are one of the contributions of wealth and variety to our nature.

These polarities are what, according to the author, have led us to build entire civilizations and cultures.

The Ecology of Human Development, Urie Bronfenbrenner

Work that what it tries is to instill the values ​​for a development of the personality both renovating, as ecologically valid. His language is simple, agile and entertaining.

Without Conscience by Robert D. Hare

Without conscience is about the world of the psychopath. In it, its author maintains at all times that these are born, and that they are not made. After the analysis of the most important aspects of the psychology of this type of individuals, there are no more and no less than 25 years of study.

LSD Flashbacks, Timothy Leary

Doctor who conducted various studies on various psychedelic drugs. His specialization in the drug LSD and his advocacy served to become a preacher. In the book, specifically, it is spoken as an autobiography of the last seven years of Leary's life.

Thinking Styles, Robert Sternberg

Interesting book that talks about the conflicts of thought in today's society. In it, the author argues that there are skills that are not accepted simply because they do not fit the type of learning that is imposed on us.

On behaviorism, BF Skinner

Skinner speaks in one of his most famous works about behaviorism, the way of being of the human being from a psychological perspective, differing from the natural sciences. He also affirms that the term has a great relationship with philosophy.

Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive, Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert Cialdini.

It includes six years of research and proposes a series of tools and tips that allow people to persuade effectively.

Change the Chip: Coping with Seemingly Impossible Changes, Chip Heath and Dan Heath

It explains why it is so difficult to apply lasting change in our lives, in communities and in companies, as well as what we can do about it.

The Art of Choosing, Sheena Iyengar

It explains how human beings make decisions and what are the external agents that affect these choices.

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value, William Poundstone

Different aspects related to purchases are explained; how the precious ones are put, the decision process to buy, how small changes influence, among others.

The Art of Fascination, Sally Hogshead

The author, an expert in marketing, shows different ways to persuade and "fascinate" people.

Ideas that stick, Chip Heath and Dan Heath

It describes what are the aspects that an idea must have in order for it to be successful and for people to value it.

Numbers rule your world, Kaiser Fung

The author explains how statistics rule our world and what important information we can get from it.

Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Convince and Persuade Through Neuromarketing, Roger Dooley

Useful book for the consumer and the seller; explains practical ways to convince and persuade based on neuromarketing.

Neuromarketing, Patrick Renvoise and Christophe Morin

It explains the latest in neuroscience and how we can use techniques that improve sales and the ability to influence others.

Brandwashed: Brainwashing Brands, Martin Lindstrom

Martin Lindstrom is an expert in marketing and explains the tricks companies use to manipulate.

The Compass of Pleasure, David J. Linden

Explain how the pleasure seeking characteristic of the human brain influences behavior.

Engineering

It explains techniques that are used social engineering that have been applied for years, but that can also be applied in other areas of life.

Mindfulness, Ellen J. Langer

The importance of living in "the here and now" and the consequences of living as "a robbery" is explained.

You Are Not So Smart, David McRaney

It describes why our brain sometimes sabotages us and the most common biases that lead us to make poor decisions.

What makes your brain happy (and why you should do otherwise), David DiSalvo

Helps understand human behavior and cognitive biases.

On happiness, Seneca

Seneca talks in On the happiness of absolute values, and how to get to achieve inner freedom. The keys and reflections that you can find among its pages will surprise you, since they seem to be from our own time.

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

The last of the so-called "Five Good Emperors" and one of the most important figures in Stoic philosophy enjoys a book with his many interesting reflections in life.

Love or depend ?, Walter Riso

Know first-hand the keys to having a much more satisfactory love relationship. Your knowledge about love will be much greater after reading this book.

The Neurotic Personality of our Time, Karen Horney

Book published almost a century ago that still seems typical of our time. It talks about a "false self" that we show and in which we take refuge to put aside insecurities and fears, which leads to low self-esteem and a fragile person.

Strangers to Ourselves: The Adaptive Unconscious, Timothy D. Wilson

The unconscious is about a world that is not very achievable today for humans.

In the pages of Strangers to Ourselves you will observe different investigations along with several theories that sometimes may seem a bit slow and dense, but that will surely be worth reading.

Stumbling happines, Daniel Gilbert

Stumbling upon happiness reveals different data with which you will verify that your brain is programmed to do the opposite. Despite this, it is possible to turn it around and Gilbert explains it to you.

Predictably irrational, Dan Ariely

Ariely explains how the behavior of the human being is totally irrational, since small changes without seemingly important will make us change our behavior.

A theory of human motivation

Book in which Abraham Maslow talks about the hierarchy of human needs and his famous pyramid. Without a doubt, a must for those passionate about psychology.

Art and artist, Otto Rank

A friend of Sigmund Freud, Rank talks about human needs to create, such as religion, mythology or even institutions. The variety of topics is served, where various plots such as anthropology or even history will be touched.

Brain Rules, John Medina

Interesting combination of knowledge and academic research applied to everyday life. You will learn new and successful ways of approaching life to achieve greater success.

Freud's youngest daughter also pursued her career as a psychologist. More specifically as a psychoanalyst, like her father.

This book is a classic where he talks about adaptation measures that help to maintain painful feelings. Comparisons with her father are inevitable when reading the work.

Science and human behavior, BF Skinner

The father of operant conditioning explains in his most famous work the theory that when actions are repeated, they will occur but with much more positive effects than on the first occasion.

An introduction to psychologist, Wilhem Wundt

As its title properly indicates, An introduction to psychologist we are told about the main aspects of the subject, although yes, always from Wilhem Wundt's point of view.

Behind the sock machine, Gina Perry

Book published in 2013 that talks about a controversial experiment carried out in the sixties on obedience. Gina Perry will question the validity of these investigations.

The social animal, Elliot Aronson

Elliot Aronson's book where the different aspects of social psychology are covered in a complete and detailed way. It is considered by many experts as one of the best writings on the subject.

The honest truth about dishonesty, Dan Ariely

Complete study on the different reasons that force humans to cheat, and still maintain honesty. The book is based on research and different experiments.

Behaviorism, John Watson

Written by one of the greatest American psychologists of all time. Among its pages, it talks about behaviorism, advocating a much more coherent, precise and empirical methodological approach to disorders.

The nature of prejudice, Gordon W. Allport

In The nature of prejudice you will learn why prejudice occurs and how it develops within our way of being. Allport tries to explain the intercultural reality that has been produced over the years.

The Psycho-Analysis of children, Melanie Klein

One of the greatest pioneering works of the psychological world of children. Melanie talks about their possible treatments and sheds light on the reasons for the behaviors they will develop in the future.

Understanding psychology, Bob Feldman

One of the most efficient books on teaching students. In it, Feldman talks about an adaptive and individualized learning system that helps young people to know both what they know and what they don't.

The biological basis of personality, Hans J. Eysenck

One of the classics of psychology that at the time was an innovation in the field. In The biological basis of personality a direct relationship is made between the mind and the physiological factors of the human being.

Themes of interest

Books of all genres

Self-help books

Books based on real events

Suspense books

Adventure books

Science fiction books

Mystery books

Detective novels

Horror books