Psychology audiobooks
The Geography of Bliss
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.
Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more
The How of Happiness - Abridged
By: Sonja Lyubomirsky
Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more
View audiobookThe Memory Doctor
By: Douglas Mason & Spencer Smith
Narrated by: Erik Singer
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your... Read more
View audiobookLeadership Therapy - Abridged
By: Anna Rowley
Narrated by: Anna Rowley
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful audiobook, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in... Read more
View audiobookAfter the Affair - Abridged
By: Janis A. Spring
Narrated by: Janis A. Spring
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Dr. Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity, wisdom, spirit, and heart. This is an extremely helpful and healing book—a gift to us all.”
—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger“It is ‘must’ reading for any couple who has experienced the violation of trust as a result of an affair.”
—Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. A staggering... Read more
Meditation, Emotion & Healing
By: William G. DeFoore
Narrated by: William G. DeFoore
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn how to meditate in this practical and encouraging program. Discover the ways in which meditation can lead you to a healthier and happier life. For many people, regular practice of these techniques results in a greater sense of peace, more emotional control, better stress management and improvement in immune function. As you get to know... Read more
View audiobookThe Spiritual Brain
By: Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. & Denyse O'Leary
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make... Read more
View audiobookThe Head Trip
By: Jeff Warren
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more
View audiobookWhy Beautiful People Have More Daughters
By: Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.
With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively... Read more
Soul to Soul
By: Gary Zukav
Narrated by: Gary Zukav
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER, THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
In Soul to Soul Gary Zukav addresses some of the most fundamental questions about the human experience -- from "Why is life so difficult?" to "How can I learn to trust?" -- with profound answers that are of truly universal value.
Soul to Soul provides penetrating insights... Read more
Musicophilia
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more
View audiobookMusicophilia - Abridged
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more
View audiobookThe Body Has a Mind of Its Own
By: Matthew Blakeslee & Sandra Blakeslee
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games?
The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world. Every point on... Read more
Look Me in the Eye
By: John Elder Robison
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits–an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes–had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he... Read more
View audiobookLook Me in the Eye - Abridged
By: John Elder Robison
Narrated by: John Elder Robison
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his... Read more
View audiobookFinding Your Inner Compass
By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
How do you get past the chatter in your mind to find the wisdom that comes from a deeper place, your truest inner guidance? Is there a way to filter out the false sense of knowing that comes only from the ego? In this beautiful and inspiring conversation, Joan Borysenko sheds light on the mystery of finding connection with your highest truth. Read more
View audiobookThe Stuff of Thought - Abridged
By: Steven Pinker
Narrated by: Dean Olsher
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language
Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have... Read more
Gut Feelings
By: Gerd Gigerenzer
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Now, Gigerenzer explains why our intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool.
Drawing on a decade of research at... Read more
Your Attitude Affects Your Health
By: Dawson Church
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Science is beginning to corroborate a link between one's beliefs, and which genes become activated for one's health. Thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, prayer, religious faith, a rich social network, and charitable acts all are factors in staying healthy. Read more
View audiobookThis Is Your Brain on Music - Abridged
By: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
What can music teach us about the brain? What can the brain teach us about music? And what can both teach us about ourselves?
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind) explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how... Read more
The Female Brain
By: Louann Brizendine, MD
Narrated by: Louann Brizendine, MD
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound... Read more
View audiobookThe Political Brain
By: Drew Westen
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into how the mind works, how the brain works, and what this means for why candidates win and lose elections. Scientist and psychologist Drew Westen has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more dispassionate notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political... Read more
View audiobookAffirmations for Self-Healing
By: Swami Kriyananda
Narrated by: Swami Kriyananda
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Scientists now acknowledge that an individuals thoughts influence their physical, mental, and emotional health. People routinely enlist the help of psychologists and drugs to overcome their deeply rooted, harmful thoughts. This book contains 52 affirmations and prayers devoted to strengthening positive qualities such as will power, good health,... Read more
View audiobookThe Personality Code
By: Travis Bradberry
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The Personality Code clearly and persuasively demonstrates how personality determines why we do what we do and how we can maximize our strengths, work smarter with others, and profit from better relationships in our careers. Based on the IDISC(tm) Personality Profile—an updated and rigorously validated proprietary version of DISC, the world's... Read more
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