Psychology audiobooks

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

Espresso Lessons

By: Arno Ilgner

Narrated by: Arno Ilgner

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rock Warrior’s Way: Mental Training for Climbers, first published in 2003, outlines the foundation of The Warrior’s Way ® material. Espresso Lessons takes the material into practical climbing situations. It is the “how to” application of The Rock Warrior’s Way, intended to build upon and complement it.Mental fitness training is simply... Read more

Soul and Everyday Life

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This timeless recording by Thomas Moore centers on his best-selling book Care of the Soul. While discussing the relationships between the soul and work, and money and creativity, Moore says: “The soul is greater than the smallness of our problems and our pasts. It is a part of our whole experience of the universe, and caring for the soul is not... Read more

A Magical Life

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In his New York Times best-seller Care of the Soul, internationally known theologian Thomas Moore recommends a radical shift in priorities: slowing down, living with our human imperfections and designing an intimate life. Moore illuminates this important lesson in this recording by focusing on old-time magicians – masters of illusion who created... Read more

The Educated Heart

By: Robert Bly

Narrated by: Robert Bly

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

During this talk, Iron John author Robert Bly gives a delicate and lively view of the fantastic flowering of feeling in 12th Century Provence. The feeling thought, developed from Arabic, Gnostic, and Albigensian sources, blossoms as love poetry famous at that time. In this recording, Bly distinguishes between the literal mode, the psychological... Read more

Humanizing Medicine

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanizing Medicine: Extending the Scope of Medicine Beyond the Scientific
In this lecture, Thomas Moore — internationally known theologian and author of New York Times best-seller “Care of The Soul", “Soul Mates” and “A Life At Work,” among other titles — talks about his views on extending the scope of medicine beyond the scientific to include... Read more

The Tools

By: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most... Read more

Warum glauben Menschen an Gott? - Abridged

By: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Narrated by: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Auch im 21. Jahrhundert glauben weltweit Menschen an Gott oder andere übernatürliche Phänomene, obwohl die modernen Naturwissenschaften erklären, dass es für den Glauben keine guten Gründe gibt. Warum ist das so? Durch die Aussicht auf ein Leben nach dem Tode lindert Religion die Angst vor der eigenen Sterblichkeit. Weiter hat der Glaube an... Read more

Gut und Böse - Abridged

By: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Narrated by: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Mensch springt in einen eiskalten Fluss, um einen Wildfremden vor dem Ertrinken zu retten. Er spendet für Flutopfer, tausende Kilometer entfernt. Er ist aber auch bereit, einen Anderen zu diskriminieren oder gar zu töten, nur weil der eine andere Hautfarbe hat oder einer anderen Religion angehört. Es gibt wohl keine andere Spezies, die... Read more

Mann & Frau - Abridged

By: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Narrated by: Detlef Fetchenhauer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unterschiede zwischen Männern und Frauen sind ein beliebtes Thema, nicht nur in populärwissenschaftlichen Büchern. Viele Frauen halten Männer für "primitiv"- für die meisten Männer sind Frauen "Wesen von einem anderen Stern". Eine wissenschaftliche Betrachtung zeigt allerdings, dass Männer und Frauen in vielem keineswegs so unterschiedlich... Read more

The Emperor’s New Drugs

By: Irving Kirsch

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Irving Kirsch has the world doubting the efficacy of antidepressants. Do they work, or are they no better than placebos? Like his colleagues, Kirsch spent years referring patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs. Eventually, however, he decided to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually... Read more

Break Through

By: Tim Clinton & Pat Springle

Narrated by: Christopher Prince

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Well, he does have a good side.” “You know, it’s probably my fault.” “She’s had a rough life. I need to cut her some slack.” When you really care about someone, it’s easy to get stuck in painful, even destructive patterns—caving in to a spouse’s manipulation, ignoring a live-at-home son’s irresponsibility, not confronting a friend’s addiction.... Read more

Getting Past Your Past

By: Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower listeners looking to achieve real change.

Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement... Read more

My Big Bottom Blessing

By: Teasi Cannon

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Loving the girl in the mirror isn't about changing how you look, but allowing God to change how you see. Teasi Cannon’s lifelong battle with body image nearly destroyed her. Yet today she feels blessed—not because the size of her lower half has changed but because her perspective has. In her often hilarious, no-nonsense style, Teasi's gut-honest... Read more

Thought Revolution

By: William A. Donius

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Former banker and CEO Bill Donius drove his bank’s eightfold growth over twelve years. And the surprising secret to his success is something we all have access to, right in our own two hands. The methodology described in Thought Revolution is simple and revolutionary—so simple, it begins by moving your pen from one hand to the other. Whether... Read more

Be Fearless

By: Jonathan Alpert

Narrated by: Robert Fass & Jonathan Alpert

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback with a new preface!
Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert shares his revolutionary five-step program that teaches readers to get rid of their fears--large and small--and find true happiness and success.

Most people have something that gnaws at them at night, a mess or unrealized dream somewhere in their lives that causes them to feel... Read more

Subliminal

By: Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Leonard Mlodinow

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates,... Read more

Once a Warrior---Always a Warrior

By: Charles W. Hoge, M.D.

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone. It's with this truth that Colonel Charles W. Hoge, M.D., a leading advocate for eliminating the stigma of mental health care, presents Once a Warrior—Always a Warrior, a groundbreaking resource with essential new insights for anyone who has ever... Read more

The Thing You Think You Cannot Do

By: Gordon Livingston

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”—Eleanor Roosevelt. What are we afraid of and what can we do about it? Fear—of change, of intimacy, of loss, of the unknown—has become a corrosive influence in modern life,... Read more

The Autism Revolution

By: Dr. Martha Herbert & Karen Weintraub

Narrated by: Denice Stradling

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . .
 
After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and... Read more

iDisorder

By: author

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology, resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and... Read more

Psychology of the Unconscious

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is the book that set Carl Jung on his independent path as a psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the mysterious world of the unconscious mind of the individual and the mythological mind of humanity. He bases his work on an exploration of Miss Frank Miller's Quelques... Read more

Gossip

By: Beth Gutcheon

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real.”
—Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book ReviewThe critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things... Read more

The Rules of Inheritance

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

Narrated by: Claire Bidwell Smith

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.

At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against... Read more