Psychology audiobooks

How to Have That Difficult Conversation - Abridged

By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Narrated by: Henry Cloud and John Townsend, Henry Cloud & Jo...

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Full of practical tips and how-tos, this audiobook will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important... Read more

Mother Warriors

By: Jenny McCarthy

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories of hope and recovery from a nation of parents of autistic children by the high-profile bestselling author ofLouder than WordsWhen Jenny McCarthy published the story of her successful efforts to save her son from autism, the response was tremendous, including a number-three rank on the New York Times bestseller list and an appearance on... Read more

The Burn Journals

By: Brent Runyon

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brent Runyon's account of his attempted suicide has garnered critical accolades for its glimpse into adolescent depression and rare insight into the human condition. Fearing expulsion and parental disapproval after lighting a shirt on fire at his school, Brent goes home, soaks his bathrobe with gasoline, steps into his shower, and strikes a... Read more

Fixing Hell - Abridged

By: Colonel Larry C. James

Narrated by: Eric Kramer

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place there never happen again.

In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts, and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story... Read more

The Courage to Raise Good Men - Abridged

By: Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum

Narrated by: Olga Silverstein

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Read more

When Food Is Love - Abridged

By: Geneen Roth

Narrated by: Geneen Roth

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God

“A life-changing book.”—OprahIn this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal... Read more

Hurry Down Sunshine

By: Michael Greenberg

Narrated by: Michael Greenberg

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hurry Down Sunshine tells the story of the extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most... Read more

Everyday Survival

By: Laurence Gonzales

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurence Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the lessons of our evolutionary history to overcome the hazards of everyday life. He finds that natural laws profoundly affect our actions, and he reveals the... Read more

Auch wenn es mich das Leben kostet! - Systemaufstellungen als Lösungshilfe bei Krankheiten und anhaltenden Symptomen (ungekürzt)

By: Stephan Hausner

Narrated by: Philipp Engelhardt

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Es gibt viele Gründe, warum Patienten, trotz aller ärztlichen Kunst, keine positiven Reaktionen auf die medizinische Therapie zeigen, warum Kranke mit chronischen Symptomen von einem Arzt zum nächsten laufen und dennoch keine Linderung erfahren. Stephan Hausner hat in seiner langjährigen Arbeit als Heilpraktiker erfahren, dass... Read more

Loneliness

By: John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure, and analyzing immune function, he demonstrates the overpowering influence of social context—a factor so strong that it can alter DNA... Read more

Proust and the Squid

By: Maryanne Wolf

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading is a miracle, because the brain was never wired for written language. This eloquent, accessible look at reading explores how it has transformed our brains, our lives, and the world.



It took 2,000 years for written language to develop, and it takes 2,000 days for a child's brain to learn to read. During that time, the brain must literally... Read more

Traffic

By: Tom Vanderbilt

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? That most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mysteries of the road.

Based on exhaustive... Read more

Traffic - Abridged

By: Tom Vanderbilt

Narrated by: David Slavin

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light.

We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic... Read more

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Narrated by: Tim Jerome

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's groundbreaking When Elephants Weep explored emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he reveals startling evidence that barnyard creatures have complex feelings too … among them, love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief, and sorrow. Weaving history, literature, science, and his own... Read more

Love as a Way of Life

By: Gary Chapman

Narrated by: Gary Chapman

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Each day involves countless interactions with others–not only among family and friends but also with neighbors, coworkers, even telephone solicitors. An attitude of love may ot be your top priority in some of these encounters. But what if the ancient maxim “love your neighbor as yourself” applied to everyone, including those you meet in the most... Read more

Unstoppable Confidence

By: Kent Sayre

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you are serious about gaining more confidence, you must get this book!”

--Robert Allen, bestselling author of The One Minute Millionaire

Imagine having the confidence and courage to go after your goals: a successful career; a rewarding relationship; a richer, fuller life. If you can dream it, you can do it--using the scientific methods of... Read more

Prisoners of Our Thoughts

By: Alex Pattakos

Narrated by: Alex Pattakos

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl's personal story of finding a reason to live in the most horrendous of circumstances, Nazi concentration camps, has inspired millions. Now, Prisoners of Our Thoughts applies Frankl's philosophy to the workplace,... Read more

Kluge

By: Gary Marcus

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind—think duct tape,... Read more

Can't Remember What I Forgot

By: Sue Halpern

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so "hot" that leaving through the front door of the lab would trigger the alarm. This was not the first time that Halpern had her head examined... Read more

Snoop

By: Sam Gosling

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected—and unplanned—ways, but also how we create personality in the first place,... Read more

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORK
In this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born with. Here are just a few of neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen's... Read more

Your Child's Strengths

By: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns... Read more

The Woman Who Can't Forget

By: Bart Davis & Jill Price

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Jill Price has the first diagnosed case of a memory condition called "hyperthymestic syndrome" -- the continuous, automatic, autobiographical recall of every day of her life since she was fourteen. Give her any date from that year on, and she can almost instantly tell you what day of the week it was, what she did on that day, and any major world... Read more

I Will Not Be Broken

By: Jerry White

Narrated by: Jerry White

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Tragedy happens to everyone. Whether it's the loss of a loved one,
a painful divorce, or a serious injury, we must all face personal catastrophe—unavoidable moments that divides our lives into "before" and "after." These events take a heavy toll on everyone, but there are those who have muscled their way through tough times and emerged stronger... Read more