Psychology audiobooks
Psychiatry
By: Thomas Szasz
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness... Read more
View audiobookOn Second Thought
By: Wray Herbert
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Our brains are marvels, hard-wired by millions of years of evolution to boast a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to negotiate our complicated lives without overthinking every choice and decision we have to make. Unfortunately, those ancient shortcuts don't always work to our advantage in our modern lives—when we don't... Read more
View audiobookComposing a Further Life
By: Mary Catherine Bateson
Narrated by: Sevanne Kassarjian
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women—herself included—who, upon entering this second adulthood, have found new meaning and new ways to contribute, composing their lives in new... Read more
View audiobookThe Man Who Lied to His Laptop
By: Clifford Nass & Corina Yen
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
STARTLING INSIGHTS INTO PERSUASION, TRUST, EMPATHY, AND TEAMWORK BASED ON REVELATIONS ABOUT HOW WE TREAT OUR COMPUTERS The driver was insistent: “A woman should not be giving directions.” Despite the customer service rep’s reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn’t actually a woman—just a computer with a female voice—the driver... Read more
View audiobook30 Minuten Selbstcoaching
By: Stefanie Demann
Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi, Gabi Franke & Heiko Grauel
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
"Einen persönlichen Coach zu haben, das wäre toll!" Haben Sie das auch schon mal gedacht? Aber ob mit oder ohne Coach: Jeder Mensch ist für seinen persönlichen Erfolg selbst verantwortlich. Was kann ich? Was will ich? Wie erreiche ich das? – Das sind die zentralen Fragen eines Selbstcoachings. Dieses Hörbuch hilft Lesern dabei, zu engagierten... Read more
View audiobookThrough a Dog's Eyes
By: Jennifer Arnold
Narrated by: Jennifer Arnold
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special needs. Arnold has developed a... Read more
Looking At Your Life Through The Powers Of Sacred Theatre
By: Peggy Rubin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Peggy Rubin encourages us to view our lives from the perspective of a theatrical performance, incorporating many different characters, and audiences. We are the primary actors in the play of our own lives. Read more
View audiobookA Child's Work
By: Vivian Gussin Paley
Narrated by: Beth Richmond
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning as teachers and administrators are under growing... Read more
View audiobookOn Human Nature
By: Edward O. Wilson
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore Edward O. Wilson's audiobook. On Human Nature, Revised Edition, begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?With characteristic pungency... Read more
View audiobookClick
By: Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
In a word, you “click.”
From the bestselling authors of Sway,Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever... Read more
Being Wrong
By: Kathryn Schulz
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and... Read more
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
By: Bill Clegg
Narrated by: Joshua Ferris
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life.
What is... Read more
The Shadow Effect
By: Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson & Debbie Ford
Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Marianne Williamson
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this groundbreaking exploration, three New York Times bestselling authors—Debbie Ford (The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, Why Good People Do Bad Things), Marianne Williamson (The Age of Miracles, A Return to Love), and Deepak Chopra (Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment)—deliver a comprehensive and practical guide to harnessing the power of our... Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Gorilla
By: Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. Two renowned psychologists explain how and why our intuitions lead us astray, “[spinning] the plain world [we] know into a wonderment of surprising new insights” (Time).
“A must-read for anyone who wants to better understand how the mind works.”—Associated Press
In The... Read more
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
By: Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and... Read more
View audiobookGetting beyond Hello
By: Jeanne Martinet
Narrated by: Jeanne Martinet
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting beyond Hello is a practical and amusing book of advice and wisdom from Miss Mingle, who answers a variety of questions about social situations."Relax," says Miss Mingle. It's easy to avoid the "hell" in "hello," deflect the unwanted greeting kiss, feel okay when you're dressed all wrong, solve modern dilemmas such as meeting same-sex... Read more
View audiobookBursts
By: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author
Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior... Read more
Bounce
By: Matthew Syed
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in... Read more
View audiobookGolf's Sacred Journey
By: David L. Cook
Narrated by: Herschel Miller
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Join David Cook--world-renowned sports and performance psychologist, speaker, and bestselling author--as he teaches you that in golf and in life, it's time to get out of your own way and let your true self shine.Based on thousands of athletes Cook has counseled and great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned, Golf's Sacred Journey is... Read more
View audiobookUS
By: Lisa Oz
Narrated by: Lisa Oz
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
"The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It’s what you think." —Lisa Oz
Being social creatures, we yearn for connection but often fall into bad habits that interfere with our ability to have rewarding relationships. We begin to see ourselves as alone, isolated, or at odds with the rest of the... Read more
The Husbands and Wives Club
By: Laurie Abraham
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Starting in spring 2006, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" the resulting article generated intense reader response. While space limitations allowed Abraham to focus only on one couple in her article, this book,... Read more
View audiobookMarried to Distraction - Abridged
By: Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell & Melissa Orlov
Narrated by: Edward Hallowell & Sue Hallowell
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples’ therapist,... Read more
View audiobookYour Intuitive Mind Could Save the World
By: Claudio Naranjo, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Claudio Naranjo shares stories from his lifelong journey, and the teachers who molded his mind and his spirit. He explains the origins of the patriarchal attitudes that led to the violence, oppression, and greed that plague the world today, and identifies the consequences of our dependence on reason at the expense of instinct. Read more
View audiobookThe Genius in All of Us
By: David Shenk
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.
DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent... Read more