Psychology audiobooks
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
By: Sarah Wilson
Narrated by: Sarah Wilson
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller""Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.” – Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckThe Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.Sarah Wilson first came across this Chinese proverb in psychiatrist Kay... Read more
View audiobookThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
By: Paula Poundstone
Narrated by: Paula Poundstone
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Is there a secret to happiness? Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly scientific" experiments to find out, offering herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the benefit of all humankind. Armed with her unique brand of self-deprecating wit and the scientific method, in each chapter Paula tries out a... Read more
View audiobookNo One Cares About Crazy People
By: Ron Powers
Narrated by: Ron Powers
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.
From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the... Read more
It Starts with One
By: Jason Lipshutz
Narrated by: Jason Lipshutz, James Fouhey & Helen Laser
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators
Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century’s biggest, and most important, rock bands. All it takes is one quick... Read more
Nothing to Fear
By: Julie McFadden, RN
Narrated by: Julie McFadden, RN
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times bestseller!
A comforting and informative guide that demystifies our end-of-life journey, from the compassionate expert known as @hospicenursejulie
What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced hospice care, and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and... Read more
Anxiously Ever After
By: Clint Edwards
Narrated by: Clint Edwards
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
How Are You Doing? No, Really . . .
In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father's battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother's undiagnosed mental illness.
From being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, to... Read more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
By: Baek Sehee
Narrated by: Jully Lee
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, read by Jully Lee.
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don’t know, I’m – what’s the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a... Read more
Strangers to Ourselves
By: Rachel Aviv
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of 2022
A Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of 2022
The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and... Read more
Inspired
By: Matt Richtel
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more
View audiobookRunning Is a Kind of Dreaming
By: J. M. Thompson
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.“Voluntary or involuntary?” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was... Read more
View audiobookHow to Be Human
By: Jory Fleming
Narrated by: Jory Fleming & Lyric Winik
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A “beautiful and astonishing” (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with autism to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for... Read more
Wonderworks
By: Angus Fletcher
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.
Literature is a... Read more
Filthy Beasts
By: Kirkland Hamill
Narrated by: Kirkland Hamill
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this “vivid tragicomedy” (People), a riveting riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family’s deep flaws and his own hidden secrets.
“Wake up, you filthy beasts!” Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings... Read more
Scratched
By: Elizabeth Tallent
Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionIn a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form,... Read more
View audiobookYou're Not Listening
By: Kate Murphy
Narrated by: Kate Murphy
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine
**This program is read by the author**
When was the last time you... Read more
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
By: C.G. Jung
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung)
In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon... Read more
Animal Madness
By: Laurel Braitman
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
**“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick**
**Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads**
**People magazine Best Summer Reads**
“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).
Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How... Read more
Este Asunto Del Miedo
By: Oslos Molina
Narrated by: Oslos Molina
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Como dice el Gran Libro “El miedo es como un hilo podrido que corroe e invade el tejido de nuestras vidas”. El miedo es seguramente una barrera para la razón y el amor y, por supuesto, refuerza la ira, la vanagloria y la agresión. El Presidente Roosevelt una vez hizo la significativa observación de que “Sólo debemos tenerle miedo al miedo”. Esta... Read more
View audiobookImagination als heilsame Kraft
By: Luise Reddemann
Narrated by: Elisabeth Pless
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
»Imagination als heilsame Kraft« von Luise Reddemann ist das Basisbuch zur psychotraumatologischen Behandlung und ein Muss für alle, die sich mit Traumatherapie beschäftigen. Die Autorin, eine Pionierin auf diesem Gebiet, präsentiert wirkungsvolle Imaginationsübungen, die Selbstheilungskräfte aktivieren und Traumapatienten auf dem Weg zur... Read more
View audiobookSer justo en un mundo injusto (Las 4 virtudes estoicas 3)
By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Abraham Vega
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
«Ryan Holiday ha llevado las antiguas enseñanzas del estoicismo a millones de lectores, desde atletas y políticos hasta directores ejecutivos».
Good Morning America Una poderosa llamada a la acción para hacer lo correcto. Este es el tercer libro de la serie «Las 4 virtudes estoicas» de Ryan Holiday, autor superventas de The New York Times. Para... Read more
Meditación
By: Brian Weiss
Narrated by: Fernando Solís
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Este libro constituye el primer paso para conseguir que el viaje de la vida sea más relajado y lleno de paz. La meditación es una técnica que puede emplearse para experimentar la paz interior y que nos permite replantearnos nuestra visión sobre lo que nos rodea, incluso sobre nosotros mismos. Practicarla nos ayuda a confiar en nuestra capacidad... Read more
View audiobookCarta de Dios a un alcohólico
By: Oslos Molina
Narrated by: Oslos Molina
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Me llamo Dios y quiero llegar a ti por medio de esta carta. Después de saludarte te quiero felicitar por tu plan de las 24 horas y pasar a hacerte algunas confesiones ,Ante todo quiero decirte que me alegro inmensamente verte como todo un hombre, poder contemplarte como un hijo, como a una obra de mis manos ahora si me gusta entrar a tu hogar y... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Time I Wore a Dress
By: Dylan Scholinski
Narrated by: Dylan Scholinski
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of "Gender Identity Disorder." She spent three years--and over a million dollars of insurance--"treating" the problem...with makeup lessons and instructions in how to walk like a girl.Daphne's story--which is, sadly, not that... Read more
View audiobookPlaying Possum
By: Susana Monsó
Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that... Read more
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