Psychology audiobooks

Verbal Judo, Updated Edition

By: George J. Thompson & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you’re in control.Verbal Judo is the classic guide to the martial art of the mind and mouth that can help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation, whether you’re talking to a boss, a spouse, or even a teenager. For more than a generation, Dr. George J. Thompson’s essential... Read more

Stretch

By: Scott Sonenshein

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Rice University social scientist teaches you to rethink what you need to succeed, and do more with what you already have, in this counterintuitive, evidence-based guide to changing the way you work and live.Stretch identifies key ways for people and organizations to work beyond their resources to achieve higher performance. Based on in-depth... Read more

The Nature Fix

By: Florence Williams

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, Florence Williams sets out to uncover the... Read more

The Art Of Influence

By: Landon T. Smith

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone wants to be influential, but very people really understand what influence is. Most of us tend to have this picture of influence as some kind of mystical force that gives off some powerful energy that allows us control people and get them to do what we want, but the reality is that influence is much more complicated than that! If you’ve... Read more

The Stress-Proof Brain

By: Melanie Greenberg, PhD

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern times are stressful—and it’s killing us. Unfortunately, we can’t avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond to them. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original approach to help readers harness the power of positive emotions and overcome stress for good.Stress... Read more

Taken

By: Rosie Lewis

Narrated by: Madeline Gould

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new... Read more

The Empathy Instinct

By: Peter Bazalgette

Narrated by: Peter Bazalgette

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner we are mapping the human brain. This is a new frontier that... Read more

The Anatomy of Motive

By: John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this eagerly anticipated book from the internationally bestselling authors of Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession, legendary crime fighter John Douglas explores the root of all crime—motive.



Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Understand the motive and you can solve the mystery. The Anatomy of Motive offers... Read more

Opening Skinner’s Box

By: Lauren Slater

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Lauren Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring... Read more

Testosterone Rex

By: Cordelia Fine

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in our development. According to this familiar story, differences between the sexes are shaped by past evolutionary pressures—women are more cautious and parenting-focused, men seek status to attract more mates—re-created in each generation by sex hormones... Read more

The Emotionally Sensitive Person

By: Karyn D. Hall, PhD

Narrated by: Melinda Wade

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a commonly heard phrase: Stop being so sensitive. These words can be frustrating to hear, and if you are an emotionally sensitive person, they often have the opposite of the desired effect. You cannot simply switch off your emotions like you would a TV show or a radio station playing an annoying song. But there are effective techniques... Read more

Evolve Your Brain

By: Joe Dispenza, DC

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Dispenza, DC, has spent decades studying the human mind—how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns over and over. In the acclaimed film What the Bleep Do We Know!? he began to explain how the brain evolves—by learning new skills, developing the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos,... Read more

How to Outmaneuver and Outsmart Anyone

By: Landon T. Smith

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The world is mired in conflict, in fact just about everywhere you go, you can see conflict happen. Conflict is in the news, it’s on the internet, we can’t even get away from it at home. Yet when it comes to conflict, how many of us seriously know how to handle it? Well, with the help of How to Outmaneuver and Outsmart Anyone, you can learn how... Read more

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Derek Le Page

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, which appeared first in 1901 and was then expanded in a series of subsequent editions, has proved to be one of Freud's most popular works, and one of his most influential during his lifetime. It was here that he proposed that many slips and errors of memory common to the average man in everyday life actually... Read more

Aus der Welt

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Matthias Lühn

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Lewis' neuer Bestseller Irren ist menschlich, sagen wir, und lassen uns immer wieder von unserem Bauchgefühl leiten. Michael Lewis geht dem Phänomen intuitiver Entscheidungsprozesse jetzt auf den Grund. Sujet seines neuen Buches Aus der Welt ist nicht mehr die Wall Street, sondern die faszinierende Freundschaft der weltbekannten... Read more

The Power of Meaning

By: Emily Esfahani Smith

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.

Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s secrets. The truth is, there are untapped sources of meaning... Read more

Why Won't You Apologize?

By: Harriet Lerner

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you want to know why Harriet Lerner is one of my great heroes, Why Won’t You Apologize? is the answer. This book is a game changer.” —Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rising Strong

“Harriet Lerner is one hell of a wise woman. She draws you in with deft and engaging prose, and then changes your life with her... Read more

American Hookup

By: Lisa Wade

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought.

Offering invaluable... Read more

Ninja Psychology 101

By: Madison Taylor

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you want to become a ninja as a kid? Do you still want to, at least a little? Who wouldn’t want to be a ninja? Ninjas are ruthless and stealthy and always cool. Well, now is your chance to make your dream come true. All of your dreams can come true now, actually. This book will teach you how to become a true ninja at life.
You have just... Read more

West Virginia school is caring for students when addicted parents can't

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In opioid-stricken West Virginia, this school is taking on the role of parent. Lisa Stark of Education Week visits Cottageville Elementary, where students often lack food, clothes and transportation because of drug-addicted parents. In addition to increasing communication with local law enforcement, the school has created a mentor program that... Read more

Understanding the Borderline Mother

By: Christine Ann Lawson

Narrated by: Heather Auden

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is crucial to survival. In this book, Dr. Christine Ann Lawson vividly describes how mothers who suffer from borderline personality disorder produce children who may flounder in life even as adults, futilely struggling... Read more

The Optimistic Child

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism—dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback—and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach... Read more

Dark Methods Of Persuasion

By: Michael Pace

Narrated by: Stacy Towar

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you like to know how to negotiate with terrorists to let a group of innocent captives free from a burning building? Would you like to know how to talk your girlfriend into having sex with you even when she feels fat and ugly? Would you like to convince people that they are ugly or fat while simultaneously making them feel that giving you... Read more

Power

By: Michael Sloan

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you someone who desires power, but you don’t know how to get it? Do you have a small amount of influence in the world, but wish to be seen as strong, powerful and in control? Well, with the help of Power: How to Get It by Any Means Necessary, you can learn all of the tricks and tactics that will turn you into a powerful and influential... Read more