Psychology audiobooks

Surviving and Thriving When Times Are Tough

By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When stress feels overwhelming, we struggle to find the balance we desperately need to get through it all. Borysenko guides us through the warning signs of pessimism and the pitfalls of optimism. She also offers up a wealth of suggestions for how to develop what she calls “stress-hardiness”—to handle all of life’s challenges with resilience,... Read more

Amen, Amen, Amen

By: Abby Sher

Narrated by: Abby Sher

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Until the age of ten, comedian and writer Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands and counting her steps, collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm... Read more

Why Women Have Sex

By: David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.



Through the voices of real women, Meston and... Read more

The Curse of the Good Girl

By: Rachel Simmons

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Simmons is a New York Times best-selling author and the founding director of the Girls' Leadership Institute. The Curse of the Good Girl looks into the phenomenon of the glass ceiling placed on girls who attempt to live up to the standard of being "good." Simmons then shows how parents can help build girls' self-esteem and give them the... Read more

Reawakening To Life's Great Adventure

By: Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the dark terror of his own breakdown, Kirk Schneider has come to live in a state of awe. He explored the roots of his nightmares and anxiety, and the habits that kept him depressed and disengaged, and found that life is something to marvel at. Now he shares the long, winding road he traveled from there to here, and offers guideposts each of... Read more

What the Dog Saw

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker.

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one... Read more

Me and the Orgone

By: Orson Bean

Narrated by: Orson Bean

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

After spending ten years and thousands of dollars for psychoanalysis, actor Orson Bean was divorced, depressed, and dissatisfied with life. Then he discovered medical orgone therapy, a unique method of treatment developed by Wilhelm Reich, MD. This therapy is centered on the concept that sexual feelings must be integrated with tender feelings of... Read more

Exploring Nature's Wildness In The City

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Even in the midst of a city we can rediscover our connection with the natural world. Haupt reminds us that “we’re intimately involved in the more-than-human world at every moment.” This author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness delights us with fascinating stories of crows and more. Read more

Conquering Fear

By: Harold S. Kushner

Narrated by: Harold S. Kushner

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.

An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with... Read more

Thinking in Pictures

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more

NurtureShock

By: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

Narrated by: Po Bronson

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What's the single most... Read more

Reset

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host of public radio’s Studio 360–shows us why the current... Read more

Brain Lock - Abridged

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Narrated by: Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 20th anniversary edition of the definitive classic on defeating obsessive-compulsive behavior, with all-new material from the author.

An estimated 5 million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over.... Read more

The Science of Fear

By: Daniel Gardner

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when... Read more

The Game - Abridged

By: Neil Strauss

Narrated by: Neil Strauss

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women.This is not fiction.For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity, he began his... Read more

In Pursuit of Elegance

By: Matthew E. May

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darned irresistible? What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks? The answer is elegance.Matthew May explores why certain events, products, and people... Read more

Counterclockwise

By: Ellen J. Langer

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically?For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents a conclusive answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of presuming impossibility, can lead... Read more

Spiritual Beings In A Material World

By: Charles Tart, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Facing the conflict between materialistic science and spirituality and bringing the reality of human spirituality into the public discourse is the work and the mission of Charles Tart. He shares scientific evidence for reincarnation, telepathy, psychic healing, and more. Read more

Strengthening Your Ability To Pay Attention

By: Winifred Gallagher

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How may we focus on what is important to us? How can we avoid technology overload? Why do certain things grab our attention and not others? With so many things now demanding our attention — emails, cell phones, text messages — many of us are overwhelmed by a plethora of distractions. Our lives may be described as the sum of what we focus on. Read more

Dreams, with eBook

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1915 and 1917, Sigmund Freud delivered a series of well-received lectures at the University of Vienna on his theories of psychoanalysis. Nine of them focused on Freud's theories about dreams—what they are and what they mean. The content of these lectures are presented in Dreams.



Freud covered a lot of ground in his lectures, focusing... Read more

Rapt

By: Winifred Gallagher

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Your world, and even your self, is largely constructed from the thoughts and feelings, people and things you’ve focused on throughout your life. Much more than you probably suspect, you can, as you move forward, actively direct your attention to create the kind of experience you want and become the person you want to be. Drawing from the latest... Read more

Ecological Intelligence

By: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to its solution.

Ecological Intelligence argues that... Read more

Ecological Intelligence - Abridged

By: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Prof. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to its solution.

Ecological Intelligence argues that... Read more

Healing and Preventing Autism

By: Jenny McCarthy & Jerry Kartzinel MD

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2006, autism has become the leading disorder affecting children in the United States. As children continue to be diagnosed at epidemic rates and parents struggle to find help, a school of DAN (Defeat Autism Now) pediatricians has been pioneering therapies and treatments that help reverse the effects of autism. DAN doctors have discovered... Read more