Psychology audiobooks

Spark

By: Julie Burstein & Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Julie Burstein

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? HOW is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing power of the stage?Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits—movies, novels, paintings, songs—but rarely are we privy to what happens... Read more

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

By: Alexandra Robbins

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

These intertwining narratives "beautifully demonstrate . . . that the people who are excluded and bullied for their offbeat passions and refusal to conform are often the ones who are embraced and lauded for those very qualities in college and beyond" (The New York Times).

In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction,... Read more

Real Boys - Abridged

By: William Pollack

Narrated by: William Pollack

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"While it may seem as if we live in a man's world," reports Pollack, "we do not live in a boy's world." Many boys today are struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, or publicly, by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection through anger and acts of violence against themselves or... Read more

Annoying

By: Joe Palca & Flora Lichtman

Narrated by: Flora Lichtman & Joe Palca

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It happens everywhere: offices, schools, even your own backyard. And, seemingly, anything can trigger it: cell phones, sirens, bad music, constant distractions, your boss, or even your spouse. We all know certain things get under our skin. Can science explain why?

NPR’s Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman take you on a scientific quest through... Read more

Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life

By: Douglas T. Kenrick, PhD

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we do what we do? Especially those seemingly inexplicable behaviors—from the disreputable to the downright despicable?

Between what can be learned from evolutionary psychology (thinking that has developed in our species over the millenniums to ensure its propagation) and cognitive science (how our minds literally think) a picture emerges.... Read more

Neurosis and Human Growth

By: Karen Horney

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now-familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment.Karen Horney was born in Hamburg in 1885 and studied at the University of Berlin,... Read more

Games People Play

By: Eric Berne

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Over forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne's classic is as astonishing and revealing as it was on the day it was first published.



We play games all the time—sexual games, marital games, power games... Read more

In Defense of Women

By: H. L. Mencken

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1918, this book considers topics that remain of vital interest to today’s readers, including monogamy and polygamy, the double standard, sexual harassment, and declining marriage rates. Written in Mencken’s characteristic no-nonsense manner, In Defense of Women crackles with controversy and caustic wit.“The truth is that... Read more

Flourish

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes “a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness” (Kirkus Reviews).

With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic... Read more

The Lucifer Effect

By: Philip Zimbardo

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 26 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?



Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how—and the myriad reasons why—we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark... Read more

Lost and Found

By: Geneen Roth

Narrated by: Geneen Roth

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their... Read more

Be Different

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”
 
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents... Read more

The Interpretation of Dreams

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize?

First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives. Delving into theories of... Read more

Moonwalking with Einstein

By: Joshua Foer

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory

“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

“Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe

An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking... Read more

Breaking Addiction

By: Lance M. Dodes

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dr. Dodes’s approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of ‘powerlessness’—a mes­sage that reinforces the sense of helplessness that is at the root of addicts’ life predicaments! Many psychiatrists recognize that this is where we must head, but Dr. Dodes is one with the guts to shine a beacon in the right... Read more

The Most Human Human

By: Brian Christian

Narrated by: Brian Christian

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing,... Read more

More Than You Can Say

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling - and is challenged to a bet he cannot resist. All he has to do is walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours.

But what starts as a... Read more

Faster - Abridged

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: James Gleick

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world.

Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond," a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers,... Read more

Scorecasting

By: Tobias Moskowitz & L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.

Drawing from Moskowitz's... Read more

The Emotional Calendar

By: John R. Sharp, MD

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In two decades of psychiatry practice, John R. Sharp has worked with many people who experienced the same emotional distresses at specific times of the year—a young woman who became depressed before Thanksgiving, a middle-aged man who felt anxious about making his summer travel plans, people who made uncharacteristically extreme decisions as... Read more

Fresh air in a box

By: Annie Lawler

Narrated by: Annie Lawler

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The reason a lot of smokers find it difficult to become non-smokers is that they frame their intention in the negative – speaking about 'giving up' and focusing on lack. Fresh air in a box will help you take control of your smoking situation enabling you the deep inner strength to take each day at a time in order to give up forever. ... Read more

Practical Wisdom

By: Barry Schwartz & Kenneth Sharpe

Narrated by: Barry Schwartz

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The surest route to a happier, more productive life and future

 

Most of us want to succeed. And most of us want to do the right thing. But we often forget that the way to

succeed is by doing the right thing, as Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe remind us in Practical Wisdom:

The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. When the institutions that shape... Read more

Twin

By: Allen Shawn

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autismWhen Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two years old, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns. With almost no warning, her... Read more

Getting More

By: Stuart Diamond

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn the negotiation model used by Google to train employees worldwide, U.S. Special Ops to promote stability globally (“this stuff saves lives”), and families to forge better relationships.

A 20% discount on an item already on sale. A four-year-old willingly brushes his/her teeth and goes to bed. A vacationing couple... Read more