okay lets be honest, I didn't read all of this book. but what I read was overly complicated and mainly irrelevant. No really it wasn't that bad. But I happen to know these topics can be interesting. Leahey doesn't.
Not for the timid. I had the added bonus of having Leahey as my instructor for history and systems at the graduate level. I can't begin to explain what I learned in his class, but I know it changed the way I view the field of psychology.
This book is very ambitious, but the execution is poor. It is a good starting point, but I would never recommend it to anyone, particularly because it presents controversial aspects of psychology as hard facts. (But also because it's very boring and dense lolz.)