Psychology audiobooks

The Mythic Power of Film

By: Geoffrey Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

After listening to this exploration of the mythological significance of films, you will never watch movies with the same eyes again. Psychotherapist Geoffrey Hill describes cinema as an art form revealing the fears and desires, symbols and issues of contemporary times. Read more

Taming Your Inner Critic

By: Hal Stone, Ph.D. & Sidra Stone

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inner Critic is one of the inner selves that Hal and Sidra Stone have identified through decades of Voice Dialogue therapy; and it can be a very destructive voice unless we learn how to identify and deal with it. Here they tell us the differences between men and women in this regard; how to recognize and understand the Inner Critic; and most... Read more

Creativity, Chaos and the Madwoman

By: Linda Leonard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Madwoman is a paradoxical archetype whose manifestations range from insanity and fury to passion, ecstasy and creative chaos. In some form or other, she is part of the inner chorus in every personality, in both men and women. Linda Leonard has a personal acquaintance with the Madwoman both through her professional therapy practice and her... Read more

It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You - Abridged

By: Janet Greeson

Narrated by: Janet Greeson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Overcome Hidden Food Addictions, Take Charge of Your Body, Your Emotions, Your Life

Here's hope and help for food addicts. Developed by Janet Greeson, a nationally renowned pioneer in the development of addiction treatment programs, this day-by-day self-help program treats the physical, emotional and spiritual causes of food addiction.
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Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Becoming An Elder

By: Mark Gerzon

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerzon describes the midlife process as a quest, as discovering the deep questions that are arising within. He encourages older people to share their stories with the young, as we all learn to dispel the negative and false belief that growing older means not growing. He’s the author of Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis Into a Quest. Read more

Through Time Into Healing - Abridged

By: Brian L. Weiss

Narrated by: Brian L. Weiss

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The book that sheds new light on reincarnation and the extraordinary healing potential of past life and hypnotic regression therapy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters.

Brian Weiss made headlines with his groundbreaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive... Read more

The Gift of the Feminine

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Joan Marler

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Our deepest lessons are found in the truths of our apparent enemies, by "looking at the person who harms you, and seeing how they are like you." This is the message of Brenda Peterson, speaking from her own family and daily life experiences, on topics from leaky roofs to the abortion issue. Read more

Sanity Through Ecopsychology

By: Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Roszak calls for "a new psychology that sees us as part of an evolving universe." This requires learning from more natural and ancient modes of integrating the person and habitat, and developing a respect for primal mental processes such as those of children. "Let's keep the kids as sane as they were born," he says. Read more

Revisioning Psychotherapy

By: James Hillman & Michael Ventura

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two creative minds have joined to issue a broadside challenge to a century-old tradition focused on individual psychological health. By its narrow focus on personal history and relationships, they charge, psychotherapy ignores the political and economic contexts in which the individual exists. Read more

The Sound of Healing

By: Sharry Edwards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable discussion with a woman who hears "signature sounds" emitted from other people's bodies--it's "the sound missing from their voice," she says. These sounds, when sung back to them, seem to have miraculous, documented healing powers in a multitude of "hopeless" medical situations. Read more

Shamanism For Our Time

By: Ruth-Inge Heinze

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shamanism has survived through human history because it still fulfills needs which are otherwise not met. In whatever environment shamans work, they shift the attention of their clients into the interconnectedness so necessary, especially in urban societies. Read more

Alchemy and Archetypes

By: Carol Pearson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We all possess the archetypes necessary for the hero’s journey. Though one or two may be predominant in our lives, we can call forth and awaken these inner guides as needed on our quest. In this provocative interview, Carol Pearson reveals how these archetypes can aid our experience of soul initiation. Her message is one of gentleness and... Read more

The King Within - Abridged

By: Douglas Gillette & Robert Moore

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this pioneering contribution to the men's movement, Robert Moore, a Jungian psychoanalyst and Douglas Gillette, a mythologist, examine the inner “King”—one of the four archetypes of the male psyche. The King Within both responds to the needs formulated by the men's movement and addresses the larger questions of male psychology. The inner King... Read more

Ancient Culture, Contemporary Wisdom

By: Helena Norberg-Hodge

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What do we have to learn from a tiny, arid mountain culture in the Himalayas? Helena Norberg-Hodge has spent many years becoming intimately familiar with the Ladakhi language and culture, and offers us colorful descriptions of their family and social life. Read more

Anger

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Within this dynamic and powerful program, you will find a full description and overview of anger management, what it is and why it's needed. You'll hear an explanation of how anger release can become addictive, and can actually develop into extreme rage addiction. You'll learn the relationship between anger and depression and what it means to... Read more

Helping Your Children with their Anger

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program will guide you to a deeper understanding of the issues underlying your child's anger, and provide you with the necessary skills to help. Listen to the program in the presence or absence of your child or adolescent, to learn the causes of the anger problems and the methods and techniques for solving them. Learn about games and... Read more

The Secret Power of Writing With Gabriele Rico

By: Gabriele Rico

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriele Rico describes how she repressed the pain of her mother’s death when she was seven years old, and suffered from her own constricted feelings until she discovered the healing power of writing. Here she shares with us her discovery of how to acknowledge and release long-held feelings which prevent us from living fully and freely. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

You Just Don't Understand - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later,... Read more

If You Really Loved Me - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Ann Rule

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There was only one way to please her father: Murder his wife....

David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. The California courts sentenced her... Read more

Of Kings and Warriors

By: Robert Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Within each of us are four fundamental archetypes--King, Warrior, Magician and Lover--which Robert Moore describes as "programs for human emotional, behavioral and mental functioning." These archetypes need to be recognized and integrated into our lives for us to achieve maturity and self-realization. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Essential Reality

By: David Bohm, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bohm addresses the nature of thought and thinking, and how our conditioned minds become subordinate to the way we think. He says the thinking process “is a representation of what is, but is not what is” and goes on to challenge our perception of time and space as illusory. This conversation ranges from mindless thought to experiencing each... Read more