Psychology audiobooks

How to Have Great Sex

By: Jo Hemmings

Narrated by: Andrea Powell

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When you want to buy or rent your dream home, you go to an estate agent. When you want to learn to cook, you buy a recipe book from TV's latest celebrity chef. But who is there for you when you want to learn about having great sex? Or when you want to revive a flagging sex life?

How to Have Great Sex is the answer. This step-by-step guide takes... Read more

Machen Sie doch, was Sie wollen!

By: Maja Storch

Narrated by: Gundi Eberhard

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Machen Sie eigentlich das, was Sie wollen? Wissen Sie überhaupt, was Sie wollen? Falls nicht, sind Sie damit nicht allein. Viele Menschen wissen nicht, was sie wollen. Und es ist auch gar nicht so einfach herauszufinden, was man wirklich will. Oft werden unsere Entscheidungen oder sogar ganze Lebensstile von dem bestimmt, was die Eltern, die... Read more

Assholes

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.

What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no... Read more

The Wisdom of Psychopaths

By: Kevin Dutton

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has... Read more

A Blue Fire: Part 1

By: James Hillman

Narrated by: James Hillman

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

James Hillman's A Blue Fire Part I burns through the entire range of his life's work in this lecture. Recorded during a seminar weekend in Rowe, Massachusetts, this talk is a conflagration of ideas. The result is Hillman revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology.
Hillman reads from and reflects on his life's work. Read more

A Blue Fire: Part 3

By: James Hillman

Narrated by: James Hillman

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

We are extremely proud to offer this third and final part of the audio series A Blue Fire from a timeless workshop recorded years ago with the late, great James Hillman. You can also get the complete series which includes all three parts here at a discount.
James Hillman's A Blue Fire burns through the entire range of his life's work in this... Read more

A Blue Fire: Part 2

By: James Hillman

Narrated by: James Hillman

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

James Hillman's A Blue Fire burns through the entire range of his life's work in this lecture. Recorded during a seminar weekend in Rowe, Massachusetts, this talk is a conflagration of ideas. The result is Hillman revisions himself, his work, and archetypal psychology. Read more

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life is surely the most approachable and enjoyable of all his works. By turning the spotlight of his ideas about the nature and function of the unconscious mind onto simple and easily understandable incidents that we have all experienced, such as slips of the tongue, sudden inexplicable clumsy actions,... Read more

The Victory Lab

By: Sasha Issenberg

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.

Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and... Read more

Critical Decisions

By: Peter A. Ubel

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are facing, or will face.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational“His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with the right balance of humor and compassion) and his topic is... Read more

Trauma heilen (Hörbuch)

By: Luise Reddemann & Cornelia Dehner-Rau

Narrated by: Karl Michael Vogler, Bettina von Websky & Annet...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Alles Wichtige zum Thema Trauma, dessen Bewältigung und wie man an den Folgen wachsen kann - informativ und spannend aufbereitet. Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe erlebt man durch schnell umsetzbare, in der Traumatherapie erprobte Übungen sowie geführte Imaginationen. Die gezielten Methoden der modernen Trauma-Therapie helfen, neues Zutrauen zu sich und... Read more

Second Sight - Abridged

By: Judith Orloff, M.D.

Narrated by: Judith Orloff

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"An exemplary and eloquently written story that makes it easy for nonbelievers in intuition to believe. You must read this book." —Psychology Today

Now with a new foreword from the author, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Judith Orloff tells her remarkable life story and teaches you how to recognize and trust your own intuitive gifts to... Read more

The Depression Cure

By: Stephen S. Ilardi

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past decade, depression rates have skyrocketed, and one in four Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. Where have we gone wrong? Dr. Stephen S. Ilardi sheds light on our current predicament and reminds us that our bodies were never designed for the sleep-deprived, poorly nourished, frenzied pace of... Read more

Thoughts Without a Thinker

By: Mark Epstein, M.D.

Narrated by: Mark Epstein, M.D.

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon its first publication, this pathbreaking book launched an explosion of interest in how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology. Since then, the worlds of Buddhism and psychotherapy have been forged into a revolutionary new understanding of what constitutes a healthy emotional life. In his insightful introduction, Mark Epstein... Read more

Teach Your Children Well

By: Madeline Levine

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.Teach Your Children Well is a toolbox for... Read more

The Real Sherlock Holmes - Abridged

By: Joe Riggs

Narrated by: Chris Patton

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if you could, like Sherlock Holmes, see right through people and spot deception instantly? After having been raised by professional psychic readers, Joe Riggs left all that behind to become the internationally acclaimed mentalist, psychological performer, and consultant that he is today. In this brief yet extremely powerful book, Riggs will... Read more

Collected Papers in Analytical Psychology

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Jung's Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology gathers in one volume some of his most important and influential shorter writings, and also some pieces that from our perspective, almost a century later, seem quaint or even idiosyncractic. The volume includes his famous study of a trance medium, a study on number-symbolism, his lectures on... Read more

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

By: David DiSalvo

Narrated by: David DiSalvo

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we routinely choose options that don't meet our short-term needs and undermine our long-term goals? Why do we willingly expose ourselves to temptations that undercut our hard-fought progress to overcome addictions? Why are we prone to assigning meaning to statistically common coincidences? Why do we insist we're right even when evidence... Read more

Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?

By: Jesse Bering

Narrated by: Jesse Bering

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?

In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning columnist Jesse Bering features more than... Read more

Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs

By: Steven Hassan, PhD

Narrated by: Steven Hassan, PhD

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the post 911 world, people are more susceptible than ever to charismatic figures who offer simple, black v. white, us v. them, good v. evil, formulaic solutions. The rise of the Internet; increasingly sophisticated knowledge about how to influence and manipulate others; and the growing vulnerabilities of people across the planet—make for a... Read more

Wait

By: Frank Partnoy

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate polemic in favor of pausing to think, not blinkWhat do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line?In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author... Read more

A Life Too Short

By: Ronald Reng

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life?

On 10 November 2009 the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was thirty two years old.

Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top... Read more

Freud

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud’s life bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his reputation and influence have endured, even intensified, in the twenty-first. Often referred to as “the father of psychoanalysis,” Freud did, in fact, conceive of many of its defining characteristics: he was the original advocate of the “talking cure,” and... Read more

Zoobiquity

By: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human... Read more