Psychology audiobooks
Traffic - Abridged
By: Tom Vanderbilt
Narrated by: David Slavin
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.
We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic... Read more
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Narrated by: Tim Jerome
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's groundbreaking When Elephants Weep explored emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he reveals startling evidence that barnyard creatures have complex feelings too … among them, love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief, and sorrow. Weaving history, literature, science, and his own... Read more
View audiobookLove as a Way of Life
By: Gary Chapman
Narrated by: Gary Chapman
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Each day involves countless interactions with others–not only among family and friends but also with neighbors, coworkers, even telephone solicitors. An attitude of love may ot be your top priority in some of these encounters. But what if the ancient maxim “love your neighbor as yourself” applied to everyone, including those you meet in the most... Read more
View audiobookUnstoppable Confidence
By: Kent Sayre
Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“If you are serious about gaining more confidence, you must get this book!”
--Robert Allen, bestselling author of The One Minute Millionaire
Imagine having the confidence and courage to go after your goals: a successful career; a rewarding relationship; a richer, fuller life. If you can dream it, you can do it--using the scientific methods of... Read more
Prisoners of Our Thoughts
By: Alex Pattakos
Narrated by: Alex Pattakos
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl's personal story of finding a reason to live in the most horrendous of circumstances, Nazi concentration camps, has inspired millions. Now, Prisoners of Our Thoughts applies Frankl's philosophy to the workplace,... Read more
View audiobookCan't Remember What I Forgot
By: Sue Halpern
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so "hot" that leaving through the front door of the lab would trigger the alarm. This was not the first time that Halpern had her head examined... Read more
View audiobookKluge
By: Gary Marcus
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind—think duct tape,... Read more
View audiobookSnoop
By: Sam Gosling
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected—and unplanned—ways, but also how we create personality in the first place,... Read more
View audiobookChange Your Brain, Change Your Life
By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Narrated by: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's... Read more
Your Child's Strengths
By: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.
Narrated by: Renée Raudman
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns... Read more
View audiobookThe Woman Who Can't Forget
By: Jill Price & Bart Davis
Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world... Read more
View audiobookI Will Not Be Broken
By: Jerry White
Narrated by: Jerry White
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Tragedy happens to everyone. Whether it's the loss of a loved one,
a painful divorce, or a serious injury, we must all face personal catastrophe—unavoidable moments that divides our lives into "before" and "after." These events take a heavy toll on everyone, but there are those who have muscled their way through tough times and emerged stronger... Read more
Candy Girl
By: Diablo Cody
Narrated by: Natalie Moore
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper.
At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from... Read more
Mama Rock's Rules - Abridged
By: Rose Rock & Valerie Graham
Narrated by: Rose Rock
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
""To be a parent is and should be a calling. There is absolutely nothing as great, challenging, or rewarding as raising a child."" So says Über-mom Rose Rock, who has raised 10 children in addition to caring for 17 foster children in her 40-plus years as a mother.As a mother who does not shy away from the hard conversations, Rose isn't afraid to... Read more
View audiobookBonk
By: Mary Roach
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred... Read more
View audiobookOdd Girl Out
By: Rachel Simmons
Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This New York Times best-seller exposes the hidden culture of aggression in girls. Author Rachel Simmons interviewed 300 girls and dozens of grown women to uncover a startling truth: girls manifest their aggression through subtle but devastating behaviors that parents and teachers fail to notice or feel helpless to stop. Simmons examines the... Read more
View audiobookWhat Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage
By: Amy Sutherland
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life?The next time her husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin... Read more
View audiobookRaus aus der Zwangsfalle - Hörbuch
By: Katarina Stengler
Narrated by: Christina Lederhaas, Karl Menrad & Alexander Ts...
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Gesundheit zum Hören! In rund 73 Minuten lernen Sie von der führenden Expertin alles Wichtige zum Thema Zwangserkrankungen. Informiert umfassend, spannend aufbereitet, sofort umsetzbar: Selbsthilfe zum Hören. GRUNDLAGEN 01 Einführung 2:21 02 Wenn Zwänge das Leben bestimmen 5:23 03 Beispiel eines Patienten mit Zwangserkrankung ... Read more
View audiobookMan's Search for Ultimate Meaning
By: Viktor E. Frankl
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound... Read more
View audiobookStaring at the Sun
By: Irvin D. Yalom
Narrated by: Gregory Gorton
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable storytelling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful Boy
By: David Sheff
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne LamottNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.What had happened to... Read more
View audiobookGang Leader for a Day
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
Narrated by: Reg Rogers & Stephen J. Dubner
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic... Read more
View audiobookThe Inner Game of Tennis
By: W. Timothy Gallwey
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The timeless guide to achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!
“Groundbreaking . . . the best guide to getting out of your own way . . . Its profound advice applies... Read more
Group Genius
By: Keith Sawyer
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some... Read more
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