Psychology audiobooks

The Language Instinct

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling... Read more

You Are Not So Smart

By: David McRaney

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise.

You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK- delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's... Read more

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child

By: Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can create a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with your child.

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child... Read more

Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony

By: Keith Russell Ablow, MD

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial of twenty-five year old Casey Anthony for the death of her daughter Caylee was the most sensational case in America since O.J. Simpson's—with a verdict every bit as stunning. After being acquitted in July 2011, Ms. Anthony instantly became one of the most infamous women in the world.

Dr. Keith Ablow distills tens of thousands of pages... Read more

The Mind and the Brain

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Sharon Begley

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now... Read more

Welcome to Your Child's Brain

By: Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D. & Sam Wang, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries—and
difficulties—encountered by parents. In an effort to raise our children smarter, happier, stronger, and better, parents will try almost
anything, from vitamins to toys to DVDs. But how can we tell marketing from real science? And what really goes through your kid's growing mind—as an... Read more

The Unheard Cry for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon his death in 1997, Viktor E. Frankl was lauded as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. The Unheard Cry for Meaning marked his return to the humanism that made Man’s Search for Meaning a bestseller around the world. In these selected essays, written between 1947 and 1977, Dr. Frankl illustrates the vital importance of the human... Read more

The Myth of Psychotherapy

By: Thomas Szasz

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Until recent years, “bad” and “immoral” were terms used to describe people who are now referred to as “sick” and “in need of treatment.” Moral and religious perspectives have been clearly replaced by medical and therapeutic rhetoric. It is little wonder that the world is plagued by legions of rapists, drug users, murderers, thieves, child... Read more

Die Frau, die im Mondlicht aß

By: Anita Johnston

Narrated by: Inga Jansen & Christina Lemke

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieses Hilfebuch zeigt, welche Rolle Essen im Leben jedes Einzelnen spielt. Vor allem Frau, deren Augenmerk immer um das Thema Essen und Gewicht kreist – von Magersucht bis zu Übergewicht - wird sehr einfühlsam ohne den erhobenen Zeigefinger Beweggründe für ungewöhnliches Essverhalten aufgezeigt. Die allgemeine Frauenproblematik und die... Read more

Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.
 
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A Most Dangerous Method

By: John Kerr

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 22 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named... Read more

The High-Beta Rich

By: Robert Frank

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts—models of financial propriety—suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic... Read more

The Mindful Therapist

By: Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Research suggests that the presence of the therapist, and how the therapist truly forges a connection with the client in therapy, are the most crucial factors affecting the client’s healing process. An engaged, committed, caring therapist who is mindful of his or her own self—and how that self relates to the client—is the key determinant of how... Read more

Change by Design

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Tim Roberts

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.

The myth of... Read more

Über das Sterben - Abridged

By: Gian Domenico Borasio

Narrated by: Andreas Wilde & Gian Domenico Borasio

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Was uns allen zu wünschen ist, ist ein nüchterner und gelassener Blick auf die eigene Endlichkeit. Dies erfordert eine ruhige und wiederholte Reflexion, am besten im Dialog mit Menschen, die uns am nächsten stehen. Das passiert leider im Leben eher selten, und wenn, dann oft sehr spät. Nehmen wir uns die Zeit dafür". (Gian Domenico Borasio) Read more

Ben Behind His Voices

By: Randye Kaye

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this updated 2nd edition, available only as an audiobook, Randye Kaye tells listeners, in the introduction and epilogue, about what happened in the decade after the initial release of Ben Behind His Voices. Yes, Ben is still here, still living a real-life version of "Chutes and Ladders" along with his family. Such is life with serious mental... Read more

The Rock Warrior's Way

By: Arno Ilgner

Narrated by: Arno Ilgner, Scott Perkins & Tracy Meazell

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Mental training is scarcely covered in the climbing literature, yet it is as important to performance as strength, flexibility, and technique. In his unique approach to mental training, Arno Ilgner draws essential elements from the rich "warrior" literature, as well as from sports psychology, and combines these with his extensive climbing... Read more

An Introduction to NLP - Abridged

By: Joseph O’Connor & Ian McDermott

Narrated by: Joseph O’Connor & Ian McDermott

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An Introduction to NLP reveals the techniques you need to achieve excellence in everything you do. Specially designed for audio with listener participation exercises, this CD focuses on communication strategies, using and understanding body languages, successful meetings and more! Some people appear more gifted than others.... Read more

The Better Angels of Our Nature

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 36 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the YearThe author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence.Faced with the... Read more

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

By: Dale Carnegie & Associates

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the original landmark bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, comes an up-to-the-minute adaptation of Carnegie’s timeless prescriptions for the digital age.

Dale Carnegie’s principles have endured for nearly a century. Since its original publication in 1936, his timeless classic How to Win... Read more

Children of the Self-Absorbed

By: Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case? Some parents dismiss the needs of their children, asserting their own instead, demanding attention and reassurance from even very young children. This may especially be the case when a parent has... Read more

Healing at the Speed of Sound

By: Don Campbell & Alex Doman

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

At this very moment, you are surrounded by sound. Pause for a minute and try to listen to it all: the chatter of a passing conversation, the gentle whoosh of air vents, noise from a nearby street, someone turning the pages of a book, birds chirping in the trees.We rarely pay attention to everything we hear, but every noise in our environment has... Read more

Brandwashed

By: Martin Lindstrom

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy.
 
Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years.  Here, he turns the spotlight on his own... Read more

The Mismeasure of Man

By: Stephen Jay Gould

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.



Yet the idea of of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively... Read more