Psychology audiobooks

If God Were Your Therapist

By: David J. Lieberman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Stay Sane In An Insane World

Given the high level of both opportunity and comfort, we would expect people to be happier than ever, and even more satisfied with their lives. The reality, though, is startlingly different. Instead of thriving and feeling empowered as a result of greater choices, we are deteriorating.

Drawing on timeless wisdom... Read more

The Red Flag Rule Book

By: Tara Landon & Cheryl Anne Meyer

Narrated by: Cheryl Anne Meyer & Tara Landon

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Many women want their Mr. Right, now! And many men want their Ms. Tonight! There are a lot of books that explain how to play these fast-fix dating games; however, there are none that explain how to bring back the good old days when love had to be earned by both sexes.
The Red Flag Rulebook is a tool to help women weed out the men who are not... Read more

Lessons in Loss and Living

By: Michele A. Reiss

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer.



Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of... Read more

High Self-Esteem and Unshakable Confidence

By: Made for Success

Narrated by: Larry Iverson, Zig Ziglar & Bob Proctor

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Feeling confident, enjoying your life, and being successful doesn’t happen by accident. Would knowing how to stop negative thinking be helpful to you? With the tools in this groundbreaking audio program, you will discover the best methods to change old behavior patterns and use your mind to feel poised, calm, and confident. Use the ten-minute... Read more

Sleights of Mind

By: Sandra Blakeslee, Stephen L. Macknik & Susana M...

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses your mind's intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu, to fool you every time,... Read more

Unbearable Lightness

By: Portia de Rossi

Narrated by: Portia de Rossi

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“An unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood.” —Los Angeles Times

In this searing, unflinchingly honest memoir, actress Portia de Rossi shares the truth of her long battle to overcome anorexia and bulimia while living in the public eye, and details the new happiness and health she has found in recent... Read more

The Mind's Eye

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Oliver Sacks & Richard Davidson

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of... Read more

Where Good Ideas Come From

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? Read more

The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head

By: Gary Small & Gigi Vorgan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Stories of human behavior at its most extreme….With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small searches for and finds the humanity that lies hidden under even the most bizarre symptoms.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New MindA psychiatrist’s stories of his most bizarre cases, The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head by Gary Small,... Read more

Europa und die Marsianer

By: Detlef B. Linke & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Detlef B. Linke

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was macht denn den Menschen aus, aus Sicht der Neurobiologie heute - nicht nur gegenüber Außerirdischen, sondern auch in Abgrenzung tierischer Lebensformen? Wie sichern wir die Einheit der Menschheit? Denken wir an Europa, so haben wir ja auch die Fragen der Abgrenzung vor uns, diesmal innerhalb der Menschheit, aber nicht ohne Virulenzen wie... Read more

Evolutionary Psychology I: The Science of Human Nature

By: Allen MacNeill

Narrated by: Allen MacNeill

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why do we do what we do?" In this thought-provoking series of lectures, Allen D. MacNeill examines the surprising-and sometimes unsettling-answers to this most basic of human questions. The remarkable new field of evolutionary psychology takes a scientific approach to the evolution of human nature. Analyzing human behavior in relation to food,... Read more

On Second Thought

By: Wray Herbert

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Our brains are marvels, hard-wired by millions of years of evolution to boast a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to negotiate our complicated lives without overthinking every choice and decision we have to make. Unfortunately, those ancient shortcuts don't always work to our advantage in our modern lives—when we don't... Read more

Composing a Further Life

By: Mary Catherine Bateson

Narrated by: Sevanne Kassarjian

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women—herself included—who, upon entering this second adulthood, have found new meaning and new ways to contribute, composing their lives in new... Read more

Psychiatry

By: Thomas Szasz

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness... Read more

30 Minuten Selbstcoaching

By: Stefanie Demann

Narrated by: Gilles Karolyi, Gabi Franke & Heiko Grauel

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Einen persönlichen Coach zu haben, das wäre toll!" Haben Sie das auch schon mal gedacht? Aber ob mit oder ohne Coach: Jeder Mensch ist für seinen persönlichen Erfolg selbst verantwortlich. Was kann ich? Was will ich? Wie erreiche ich das? – Das sind die zentralen Fragen eines Selbstcoachings. Dieses Hörbuch hilft Lesern dabei, zu engagierten... Read more

Through a Dog's Eyes

By: Jennifer Arnold

Narrated by: Jennifer Arnold

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring, inspiring book with the power to change the way we understand and communicate with our dogs.
 
Few people are more qualified to speak about the abilities and potential of dogs than Jennifer Arnold, who for the past twenty years has trained service dogs for people with physical disabilities and special needs. Arnold has developed a... Read more

Looking At Your Life Through The Powers Of Sacred Theatre

By: Peggy Rubin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Peggy Rubin encourages us to view our lives from the perspective of a theatrical performance, incorporating many different characters, and audiences. We are the primary actors in the play of our own lives. Read more

A Child's Work

By: Vivian Gussin Paley

Narrated by: Beth Richmond

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning as teachers and administrators are under growing... Read more

On Human Nature

By: Edward O. Wilson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore Edward O. Wilson's audiobook. On Human Nature, Revised Edition, begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?With characteristic pungency... Read more

Being Wrong

By: Kathryn Schulz

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and... Read more

Click

By: Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
 
In a word, you “click.”
 
From the bestselling authors of Sway,Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever... Read more

The Shallows

By: Nicholas Carr

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: as we enjoy the internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?Now, Carr... Read more

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

By: Bill Clegg

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life.

What is... Read more

The Shadow Effect

By: Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson & Debbie Ford

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Marianne Williamson

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking exploration, three New York Times bestselling authors—Debbie Ford (The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, Why Good People Do Bad Things), Marianne Williamson (The Age of Miracles, A Return to Love), and Deepak Chopra (Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment)—deliver a comprehensive and practical guide to harnessing the power of our... Read more