Where I can learn about the basics of psychology?
Anonymous’s answer is a bit misleading. Disclaimer: My training was preparing me for work in psychophysics (the psychology of perception) though I abandoned the field, alas. Much of _Psychology Today_ (from my experience with the magazine) is concerned with clinical and pop psychology, especially addictions and therapy. It deals with the latest trends, not the enduring principles of psychology. Any research is usually given as snippets, with sketchy descriptions and often extrapolating theories that go beyond what has been proven. You may be happy with _Psychology Today_, but it only covers a small portion of the field. Your local college ought to have numerous courses dealing with psychology.
If you are willing to “look”, then read on. First, just take a look at a point in history when a world view was changing. The first World War had just ended. It is the decade of the 1920’s with “modernism” [Flapper girls, Picasso, dadaism, Einstein and also Quantum physics, Art deco, Jazz] Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin then Stalin were swiftly coming to power. There was American fear of the “new negro” with race riots, the Ku Klux Klan had about 2 million members in 1924 (very big in the north and both coasts). The “Red Scare” resulting from the new USSR and fear of foreign born citizens led to incredible injustices. The majority of city workers at that time were foreign born. In the 20’s, these people were also popular: Madison Grant, Freud, Jung, and some other psychologists. Madison Grant Grant is most famously the author of the popular book The Passing of the Great Race in 1916, an elaborate work of racial hygiene detailing the “racial history” of the world. This early racialist work ex
