Psychology audiobooks

Irritable Hearts

By: Mac McClelland

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland left Haiti after covering the lingering devastation of the earthquake. Back home, McClelland finds herself imagining vivid scenes of violence. She can’t sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, triggered by her trip and seemingly exacerbated by... Read more

Creatures of a Day, and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty of these challenges. Although these... Read more

Growing An Elder Community

By: David Goff, Ph.D. & Alexandra Hart

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. David Goff and Alexandra Hart discuss their experience of facilitating a local “elder salon” and encourage others to start one in their community. Many participants express a surprising freedom to truly become themselves as they age. Goff and Hart touch on the differences between growing old and becoming an elder, and offer ways to make the... Read more

He Wanted the Moon

By: Mimi Baird & Eve Claxton

Narrated by: Jane Alexander, Paul Boehmer & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner

A Washington Post Best Book of 2015

A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.
 
Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in... Read more

The Evil Hours

By: David J. Morris

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as polio loomed over the 1950s and AIDS stalked the 1980s and 1990s, post-traumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's veterans. But the disorder's reach extends far beyond the armed... Read more

This Idea Must Die

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014, he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as... Read more

Will I Ever Be Free of You?

By: Karyl McBride

Narrated by: Karyl McBride

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers, Dr. Karyl McBride draws on her expertise in treating children and partners damaged by narcissists in this practical new guide to divorce and its aftermath.With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr.... Read more

Scary Close

By: Donald Miller

Narrated by: Webb Wilder

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When it comes to authenticity, is being fully yourself always worth the risk? From the author of Blue Like Jazz comes New York Times bestseller Scary Close, Donald Miller's journey of uncovering the keys to a healthy relationship and discovering that they're also at the heart of building a healthy family, a successful career, and a trusted... Read more

The Teenage Brain

By: Frances E. Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Frances E. Jensen

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A New York Times BestsellerRenowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers.Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As a... Read more

Dark Psychology 101

By: Michael Pace

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark Psychology is one of the most powerful forces at work in the world today. It is used by the most powerful influencers the world has ever known. Those who are unaware of it risk having it used against them. Don’t run that risk!
In his book entitled Dark Psychology 101 author Michael Pace offers a cutting-edge distillation of some of the most... Read more

Touch

By: David J. Linden

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

David J. Linden, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and the bestselling author of The Compass of Pleasure, presents an engaging and fascinating examination of how the interface between our sense of touch and our emotional responses affects our social interactions as well as our general health and development. Accessible in its wit and clarity, Touch... Read more

Denn alles ist vergänglich - Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie (Ungekürzt)

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Alexander Bolte, Uwe Thoma & Kaja Sesterhenn

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Fühlen Sie sich im verwirrenden Labyrinth des Lebens verloren? Quält Sie die erdrückende Einsamkeit? Haben Sie Angst vor der unerbittlichen Vergänglichkeit? Oder sorgt der schleichende Verlust Ihrer Jugend und Eleganz für Unbehagen? "Denn alles ist vergänglich: Geschichten aus der Psychotherapie" vom renommierten Therapeut Irvin D. Yalom ist... Read more

The Brain's Way of Healing

By: Norman Doidge, M.D.

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now a new afterword.

Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology  

In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding... Read more

Worry

By: Edward M. Hallowell, MD

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Worry consumes time and energy, too often isolates us from friends and family, and prevents us from solving the real problems that are behind the act of worrying. Dr. Edward M. Hallowell makes clear the crucial distinctions among the various forms of worry, showing which are protective and productive, which handicap achievement and pleasure, and... Read more

The Sweet Spot

By: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease.

Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by... Read more

How to Fly a Horse

By: Kevin Ashton

Narrated by: Kevin Ashton

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who... Read more

Tasty

By: John McQuaid

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Taste has long been considered the most basic of the five senses because its principal mission is a simple one: to discern food from everything else. Taste is a whole-body experience, and breakthroughs in genetics and microbiology are casting light not just on the experience of french fries and foie gras but the mysterious interplay of body and... Read more

Resilience

By: Jessie Close & Pete Earley

Narrated by: Jessie Close & Glenn Close

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament cult. Jessie passed her childhood in New York,... Read more

Bullied

By: Carrie Goldman

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The mother of a bullied first grader, popular blogger Carrie Goldman's inspiring true story triggered an outpouring of support from online communities around the world. In Bullied, she gives us a guide to the crucial lessons and actionable guidance she's learned about how to stop bullying before it starts. It is a book born from Goldman's post... Read more

Cognitive And Dialectical Behavior Therapy Unleashed

By: James Ashley

Narrated by: Lauren McMahon

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people ideally want to live a fulfilling life which includes having a healthy relationship with themselves as well as others. However, what precludes a great deal of people from attaining this fulfillment in life is the inner turmoil that consumes them. This inner turmoil inevitably leads to distress which affects everything around them... Read more

Die Macht der inneren Bilder

By: Gerald Hüther

Narrated by: Jan Reinartz

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Macht der inneren Bilder Innere Bilder – das sind all die Vorstellungen, die wir in uns tragen und die unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln bestimmen. Es sind Ideen und Visionen von dem, was wir sind, was wir erstrebenswert finden und was wir vielleicht einmal erreichen wollen. Es sind im Gehirn abgespeicherte Muster, die wir benutzen, um uns... Read more

Claim Safety For Your Own

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Recover from trauma, and learn that you are truly safe.When we have been traumatized by life in any way, part of our system goes on an automatic state of high alert, to help us avoid further injury. In this state, it’s impossible to completely relax. We’re left unable to really heal, to be ourselves, and to fully open to life.At the heart of... Read more

Clearing Sadness

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Guided Imagery helps let go of sadness and depression.Everyone goes through periods of sadness now and then. But when we get stuck in ongoing sadness or depression for more than a week or two, it’s time to do something to break the spell.Guided imagery offers a safe, natural way to let go of sadness, and open to new possibilities. It can help us... Read more

Say Goodbye to Worry – Hot Air Balloon

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Unload your worries, and send them away for good. Then re-envision your life, worry free.Worry much? Worry casts a dark shadow over everything in our lives. And it’s often a pattern so deep in our unconscious mind that we hardly notice doing it. We all know that worry does absolutely nothing to help us. But what it does do is keep us from... Read more