Psychology audiobooks

Soul Keeping

By: John Ortberg

Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When is the last time you thought about the state of your soul? Bestselling author John Ortberg guides you through practical steps to restoring your soul so you can finally experience a life of wholeness, balance, and hope.In an age of materialism and consumerism where many people try to buy their way to happiness, many souls are starved and... Read more

I Heart My Little A-Holes

By: Karen Alpert

Narrated by: Karen Alpert

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of Go the F**k to Sleep, Confessions of a Scary Mommy, and Ketchup Is a Vegetable, a collection of funny, warm, and charmingly profane tales from the frontlines of parenthood by the author of the popular Baby Sideburns blog.Once upon a time you and your partner had a perfect life: dinners out, weekend mornings cuddling in... Read more

Smarter

By: Dan Hurley

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter? Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in... Read more

Tame the Primitive Brain

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A number one anxiety in business is dealing with problem people. Unfortunately, try as you might, you can't fix others—but you can manage your reactions to their behavior. When you tame your most impulsive, primitive reactions to the crazy situations you face every day, you'll help others do the same. Tame the Primitive Brain offers a new and... Read more

Trying Not to Try

By: Edward Slingerland

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being
 
Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who... Read more

The Rise of Superman

By: Steven Kotler

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and firsthand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy... Read more

Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love

By: Giovanni Frazzetto

Narrated by: Giovanni Frazzetto

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Is science ever enough to explain why we feel the way we feel? In this engaging account, renowned neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto blends cutting-edge scientific research with personal stories to reveal how our brains generate our emotions. He demonstrates that while modern science has expanded our knowledge, investigating art, literature, and... Read more

The Depths

By: Jonathan Rottenberg

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly... Read more

The Truth About Trust

By: David DeSteno

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What really drives success and failure? Can I trust you? It's the question that strikes at the heart of human existence. Whether we're talking about business partnerships, romantic relationships, child-parent bonds, or the brave new world of virtual interaction, trust, when correctly placed, is what makes our world spin and lives... Read more

Healing ADD Revised Edition

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

All-New Revised Edition

Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow—yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD was one of the first to identify that there are multiple types beyond just purely hyperactive or inattentive ADD,... Read more

The Future of the Mind

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Compelling….Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip”
—The New York Times Book Review


The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACEtackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human... Read more

What Should We Be Worried About?

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson, Michelle Ford &...

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

John Brockman, editor of This Will Make You Smarter, presents his latest thought-provoking book, featuring insights from leading thinkers such as Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, and Daniel C. Dennett. Read more

Choice Theory

By: William Glasser

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability that is the source of almost all unhappiness. For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship–destroying external control psychology. For example, if... Read more

Mindwise

By: Nicholas Epley

Narrated by: Nicholas Epley

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It’s a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and... Read more

Wieso Frauen immer Sex wollen und Männer immer Kopfschmerzen haben

By: Christian Thiel

Narrated by: Andreas Denk

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Irrungen und Wirrungen der Liebe Liebe auf den ersten Blick? Gibt es nicht! Die Zahl der Ehescheidungen? Steigt nicht! Und Männer wollen noch können immer. Fazit: Das meiste, was wir über die Liebe zu wissen glauben, ist falsch! Nirgendwo sonst leisten wir uns so viel Ignoranz gegenüber den Fakten. Die Liebe führt also eine Art Doppelleben... Read more

Sex After…

By: Iris Krasnow

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly honest look at how to enjoy a long, satisfying sex life no matter what life throws at you.Hooking up, marriage, childbirth, infidelity, divorce, menopause, widowhood—women's lives have many stages, changes, and challenges. A prevailing question on women's minds as they age... Read more

Demon Camp

By: Jennifer Percy

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005 a Chinook helicopter carrying sixteen Special Ops soldiers crashed during a rescue mission in a remote part of Afghanistan, killing everyone on board.

In that instant, machine gunner Caleb Daniels lost his best friend, Kip Jacoby, and seven members of his unit. Back in the U.S., Caleb begins to see them everywhere—dead Kip, with his... Read more

Loveology

By: John Mark Comer

Narrated by: John Mark Comer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally--a theology of love that will help you navigate the confusing waters of modern relationship.In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we've been picking up the pieces.With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female... Read more

Play Is More Than Just Fun

By: Stuart Brown, M.D.

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Play is deeply embedded in our natures. It contributes to optimism and hope for the future. It enables us with the ability to persevere. Brown concludes, “Play is a fundamental survival drive of humanity without which long term survival of our species may be at stake.” He describes research showing that most sociopaths suffer from play... Read more

Putting Children First

By: JoAnne Pedro-Carroll

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An internationally renowned authority on children and divorce reveals the latest research-based strategies for helping children survive and thrive before, during, and long after their parents divorce. The breakup of a family can have an enduring impact on children. But as Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this... Read more

Fail Fast, Fail Often

By: Ryan Babineaux & John Krumboltz

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, psychologists, career counselors, and creators of the popular Stanford University course “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” have come to a compelling conclusion: happy and successful people tend to spend less time planning and more time acting. They get out into the world, try new things, and make mistakes, and in doing... Read more

Smart Change

By: Art Markman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful guide that shows how habits of behavior are formed, and how we can transform bad habits into positive behaviors in ourselves and others. Smart Change explores the psychological mechanisms that form and maintain habits in individuals and groups and offers real, accessible and actionable advice for changing habits. In an engaging... Read more

Me, Myself, and Why

By: Jennifer Ouellette

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating survey of the forces that shape who we are and how we act—from the author of The Calculus Diaries Following her previous tours through the worlds of physics (Black Bodies and Quantum Cats) and calculus (The Calculus Diaries), acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette now turns her attention to the mysteries of human identity and... Read more

Eating Local Food As An Act Of Belonging

By: Vicki Robin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin shares how industrial agriculture has distanced us from the hands that grow and process our food. She explores why eating from your bioregion is good for you, good for your community, and good for the planet. As we commit, in some small way, to eating within a radius of where we live, we help turn the tide toward sustainable living and... Read more