Psychology audiobooks

ADHD

By: Mark Selikowitz

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) is now recognized as one of the most common causes of learning and behavioral difficulties in school-aged children. Symptoms include poor concentration, forgetfulness, poor organization, impulsivity, restlessness, poor social skills, learning difficulties, low self-esteem, and defiant behavior.... Read more

Hard to Be Human

By: Ted Cadsby

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

We are oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering. We replay past anguish, anticipate future distress, and stew in self-righteous anger. In Hard to Be Human, Ted Cadsby focuses on five cognitive design flaws that foster underthinking and overreacting, and reveals powerful strategies to overcome them. Read more

Healing the Soul Wound

By: Eduardo Duran

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking book, Eduardo Duran—a psychologist working in Indian country—draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations. This second edition includes an important new chapter devoted to working with veterans, examining what it means to go to war and... Read more

The Trouble With Trauma

By: Michael Scheeringa, MD

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trouble with Trauma is the story of how the idea of psychological trauma appeals to the human mind. Trauma impacts many people psychologically, but the evidence on the long-term physical effect is incomplete. Theories that psychological trauma can permanently damage your brain, cause physical disease, and change your essential character have... Read more

Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy

By: Linda Weiner & Constance Avery-Clark

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual provides health professionals with specific information on the use of the structured touching opportunities used regularly by Sexologists to address their clients' sexual difficulties (Sensate Focus 1) and enhance intimate relationships (Sensate Focus 2). This book is the only one to: vividly... Read more

Bipolar, Not So Much

By: Chris Aiken, MD & James Phelps, MD

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Depression confuses the mind, strips away hope, and causes people to blame themselves for an illness they never asked for. This book presents a revolutionary new understanding of the concept of depression and offers skills and strategies to manage it.



No longer is this a one-size-fits-all diagnosis, and antidepressants are no longer the... Read more

Depression

By: Jonathan Rottenberg

Narrated by: Kevin Rineer

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Depression affects more than fifteen percent of the population, and it is striking people at younger and younger ages. Depression is all too familiar, yet it remains shrouded in mystery, confusion, and fear. What is depression? How is it different from sadness? It is said that depression is a "chemical imbalance" but what does that mean? Which... Read more

Love

By: Ronald De Sousa

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes.



Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction... Read more

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

By: Louis Cozolino

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An update to the classic book that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of therapy.



This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master at synthesizing neuroscientific information and... Read more

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships

By: Louis Cozolino

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A revised edition of the bestselling book on how relationships build our brains.

As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and that other people play a significant part in regulating our emotional and social behavior. Although this interdependence is a reality of our existence, we... Read more

Lifting Heavy Things

By: Laura Khoudari

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this innovative title, celebrated trainer and trauma practitioner Laura Khoudari brings a fresh approach to healing after trauma, using strength training as an embodied movement practice. Compassionate, witty, and fastidiously researched, Khoudari's debut, Lifting Heavy Things, is a breakthrough title that will empower and inspire you to... Read more

Black Pain

By: Terrie M. Williams

Narrated by: Madeline McCray

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief. For thirty years she kept on her game face of success, exhausting herself daily to satisfy her clients' needs while neglecting her own.... Read more

Competent to Counsel

By: Jay E. Adams

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic in the field of Christian counseling, Competent to Counsel is one of the first works to fully articulate a vision of "nouthetic" counseling—a strictly biblical approach to behavioral counseling and therapy.
Dr. Jay Adams defends the idea that the Bible itself, as God's Word, provides all the principles needed for understanding and... Read more

The Cure for Loneliness

By: Bill Howatt

Narrated by: Dallin Bradford

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

You can build authentic social connections—even while physically apart.

We are wired for social connection; our mental health depends on it. From a simple smile from a stranger on the street to a hug from a relative or close friend, we humans thrive when we feel connected to one another. And yet, loneliness is on the rise.

The good news is, you... Read more

Happy at Any Cost

By: Kirsten Grind

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, “a startling portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh” (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on his short life, untimely death, and what that means for our pursuit of happiness.

Tony Hsieh—CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and beloved... Read more

The Secrets of Vagus Nerve Stimulation

By: Dr. Lee Henton

Narrated by: Andrew J. Cornelius

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you aware there is an essential nerve in your body called the vagus nerve, which plays a significant role in your overall health? Do you know that stimulating this nerve can solve several health conditions and diseases? Are you willing to improve your health and overall wellbeing once and for all? If so, then read on…The vagus nerve is not... Read more

Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Manuel Lopez

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Ya en 1895, el erudito francés Gustav Le Bon había tratado por primera vez en detalle los fenómenos psicológicos de masas. Sigmund Freud, el fundador del psicoanálisis, retomó los hallazgos de Gustav Le Bon y formuló su propio esquema de la relación entre el individuo y las masas en el ensayo "Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo" en 1921.... Read more

The Almost Broken Mind

By: BENJOY BROWN

Narrated by: Dan Levy

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you often overwhelmed by your thoughts?Are unhealthy habits and destructive thought patterns ruining your life?Do you want to learn how to overcome them once and for all?Any one of us can feel overwhelmed by the war that rages in our mind and this can happen to even the strongest people. When we lose control of our mind and allow negative... Read more

Restart

By: Doreen Dodgen-Magee

Narrated by: Doreen Dodgen-Magee

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Restart: Designing a Healthy Post Pandemic Life addresses how to work through the stress of the past year, tend to our physical and mental health, and re-align our relationship with technology. Emphasis is placed on habits created during quarantine that may have an impact on mental and physical health. Tools for resolving stress, anxiety, and... Read more

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple

By: Charles P. Carlton & Dr. Lee Henton

Narrated by: Andrew J. Cornelius

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you find yourself lashing out in anger over everything and at everyone? Do you frequently experience panic attacks? Or are you overwhelmed by depression and anxiety? If so, then continue listeningThe fact is, we have all found ourselves being overcome by overwhelming emotions at some point in our life. However, when emotionally thrown off... Read more

The Life-Affirming Magic of Listening Like You Give a Crap

By: Sandy Seymour

Narrated by: Sandy Seymour

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever had someone chew you out for zoning out in the middle of a conversation?Ever felt like you just couldn't focus on what someone was saying because you were FOMOing on your game, social media, or the latest Netflix binge sensation?Ever wondered why people get pissed at you, struggled to remember that thing you promised to do, or flunked a... Read more

El malestar en la cultura

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Manuel Lopez

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud publicó en 1930 “El malestar en la cultura”, el segundo tratado completo de Freud sobre teoría cultural, junto con su obra de 1921 “Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo”. En ella, Freud describe el conflicto entre el individuo con su impulso de satisfacer sus pulsiones y la sociedad, que presiona constantemente para contener... Read more

El porvenir de una ilusión

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Manuel Lopez

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“El porvenir de una ilusión” es una obra de 1927 de Sigmund Freud. Se considera su principal obra sobre la religión, vista como un fenómeno social contemporáneo. Para Freud, la base de la religión es el desamparo humano. Una reacción infantil a esto es el deseo de un padre protector. En la religión este deseo se cumple, pero sólo en la fantasía,... Read more

Vagus Nerve Hack

By: Brandon Wallace

Narrated by: Betsy Yanz

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how exercising your vagus nerve, which regulates automatic functions in the body, can help you take control of your healthThe vagus nerve is something that has stumped anatomists for years. The vagus nerve is responsible for and instrumental in hundreds of processes within the body. This nerve starts at the stem of your brain and leads... Read more