If you want a heavily opinionated angle on history written by a sexist bigot who decided to pick and choose what to include and what not to...this is your book. The topics are very dear to me, but the author's take on each topic was disheartening and at times infuriating. He has an extremely whig (and ethnocentric) view of history. I am used to ethnocentrism mostly in books written by white men, but what is bothersome is when he completely excludes or barely mentions issues of a period...for example he barely mentions how Black Plague, even though he talks about the contemporary period. He talks about how "Islam and China"(yes apparently they are equivalent) did not let philosophy and science flourish but Europe did(completely ignoring the influence of the Catholic Church at the time). Instead of just presenting the philosophies that have influenced the shaping of psychology, he never fails to impose his own opinion about each philosophy...so on and so forth...Very disappointed.