Psychology audiobooks
Resolving Childhood Trauma
By: Nancy Rappaport, M.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
At the age of four Nancy Rappaport lost her mother to suicide. More than thirty years later, as she held her own infant daughter in her arms, she knew she must revisit that early loss, and resolve the trauma that had haunted her for decades. Her journey led to revelations that now inform her work as a psychiatrist, as she helps her patients... Read more
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By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?
The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational... Read more
The Pickup Artist
By: Mystery
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pickup Artist is a salacious book about the continuing adventures of the world's most famous pickup artist, Mystery, who was first introduced as the ringleader of a subculture of pickup artists chronicled in Neil Strauss's 2005 bestseller The Game. After fame, fortune, and reality television, a group of pickup artists live in a gorgeous... Read more
View audiobookBargaining with the Devil - Abridged
By: Robert Mnookin
Narrated by: Robert Mnookin
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The art of negotiationโfrom one of the countryโs most eminent practitioners and the Chair of the Harvard Law Schoolโs Program on Negotiation.
One of the countryโs most eminent practitioners of the art and science of negotiation offers practical advice for the most challenging conflictsโwhen you are facing an adversary you donโt trust, who may... Read more
Manufacturing Depression
By: Gary Greenberg
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufacturedโnot as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at... Read more
View audiobookThe Hidden Brain
By: Shankar Vedantam
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of us would agree that thereโs a clearโand even obviousโconnection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations weโre not even aware of?
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The โhidden brainโ is Shankar Vedantamโs shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional... Read more
Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Chelsea Bruland & Jeff Prewett
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Allan and Barbara Pease, the international bestsellยญing authors of Why Men Donโt Listen & Women Canโt Read Maps, deliver their most exciting book yet.
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Will men and women ever see eye-to-eye about love and sex? How will relationships ever be rewarding if men only want to rush into bed and women want to rush to the altar? In this practical,... Read more
Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love - Abridged
By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease
Narrated by: Chelsea Bruland & Jeff Prewett
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Allan and Barbara Pease, the international bestsellยญing authors of Why Men Donโt Listen & Women Canโt Read Maps, deliver their most exciting book yet.
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Will men and women ever see eye-to-eye about love and sex? How will relationships ever be rewarding if men only want to rush into bed and women want to rush to the altar? In this practical,... Read more
An Unquiet Mind - Abridged
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER โข A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved livesโwith a new preface by the author.ย
Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison... Read more
Mรคnner
By: Gerald Hรผther
Narrated by: Gerald Hรผther
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Wie wird ein Mann ein Mann? Oder etwas prรคziser: Wie wird aus dem, was ein Mann werden kรถnnte, schlieรlich das, wofรผr sich der Betreffende aufgrund seines Geschlechts hรคlt? Diese Frage beschรคftigt den Biologen, Hirnforscher und Bestsellerautor Gerald Hรผther in seinem neuen Buch. Die wichtigste Erkenntnis der Hirnforschung lautet: Das menschliche... Read more
View audiobookSmoke-Free in 30 Days
By: Daniel F. Seidman
Narrated by: Daniel F. Seidman
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Why are you still smoking, even though you want to quit? Based on twenty years of research and hands-on work with countless smokers in his clinics at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Daniel F. Seidman understands that people smokeโand quitโfor different reasons and what works for one smoker might not work for another.
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59 Seconds
By: Richard Wiseman
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.
Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and... Read more
Your Kids Are Your Own Fault
By: Larry Winget
Narrated by: Larry Winget
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Straight-talking, bestselling Pitbull of Parenting Larry Winget says "This is not a fix your kid book. It's a fix the way you parent book. You owe it to your kids to parent with a plan!"Being a parent is the toughest job in the world, especially with the increasing number of negative influences and pitfalls facing our kids today, from childhood... Read more
View audiobookSurviving and Thriving When Times Are Tough
By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
When stress feels overwhelming, we struggle to find the balance we desperately need to get through it all. Borysenko guides us through the warning signs of pessimism and the pitfalls of optimism. She also offers up a wealth of suggestions for how to develop what she calls โstress-hardinessโโto handle all of lifeโs challenges with resilience,... Read more
View audiobookAmen, Amen, Amen
By: Abby Sher
Narrated by: Abby Sher
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Until the age of ten, comedian and writer Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands and counting her steps, collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm... Read more
View audiobookWhy Women Have Sex
By: David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston
Narrated by: Renรฉe Raudman
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.
Through the voices of real women, Meston and... Read more
The Curse of the Good Girl
By: Rachel Simmons
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Rachel Simmons is a New York Times best-selling author and the founding director of the Girls' Leadership Institute. The Curse of the Good Girl looks into the phenomenon of the glass ceiling placed on girls who attempt to live up to the standard of being "good." Simmons then shows how parents can help build girls' self-esteem and give them the... Read more
View audiobookReawakening To Life's Great Adventure
By: Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the dark terror of his own breakdown, Kirk Schneider has come to live in a state of awe. He explored the roots of his nightmares and anxiety, and the habits that kept him depressed and disengaged, and found that life is something to marvel at. Now he shares the long, winding road he traveled from there to here, and offers guideposts each of... Read more
View audiobookWhat the Dog Saw
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafiaย focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one... Read more
Me and the Orgone
By: Orson Bean
Narrated by: Orson Bean
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
After spending ten years and thousands of dollars for psychoanalysis, actor Orson Bean was divorced, depressed, and dissatisfied with life. Then he discovered medical orgone therapy, a unique method of treatment developed by Wilhelm Reich, MD. This therapy is centered on the concept that sexual feelings must be integrated with tender feelings of... Read more
View audiobookExploring Nature's Wildness In The City
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Even in the midst of a city we can rediscover our connection with the natural world. Haupt reminds us that โweโre intimately involved in the more-than-human world at every moment.โ This author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness delights us with fascinating stories of crows and more. Read more
View audiobookConquering Fear
By: Harold S. Kushner
Narrated by: Harold S. Kushner
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fearโand what we can do to overcome it.
An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with... Read more
Thinking in Pictures
By: Temple Grandin
Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more
View audiobookNurtureShock
By: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Narrated by: Po Bronson
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What's the single most... Read more
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