Psychology audiobooks

Candy Girl

By: Diablo Cody

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper.

At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from... Read more

Mama Rock's Rules - Abridged

By: Rose Rock & Valerie Graham

Narrated by: Rose Rock

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""To be a parent is and should be a calling. There is absolutely nothing as great, challenging, or rewarding as raising a child."" So says Über-mom Rose Rock, who has raised 10 children in addition to caring for 17 foster children in her 40-plus years as a mother.As a mother who does not shy away from the hard conversations, Rose isn't afraid to... Read more

Bonk

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred... Read more

Odd Girl Out

By: Rachel Simmons

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This New York Times best-seller exposes the hidden culture of aggression in girls. Author Rachel Simmons interviewed 300 girls and dozens of grown women to uncover a startling truth: girls manifest their aggression through subtle but devastating behaviors that parents and teachers fail to notice or feel helpless to stop. Simmons examines the... Read more

What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage

By: Amy Sutherland

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life?The next time her husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin... Read more

Raus aus der Zwangsfalle - Hörbuch

By: Katarina Stengler

Narrated by: Christina Lederhaas, Karl Menrad & Alexander Ts...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Gesundheit zum Hören! In rund 73 Minuten lernen Sie von der führenden Expertin alles Wichtige zum Thema Zwangserkrankungen. Informiert umfassend, spannend aufbereitet, sofort umsetzbar: Selbsthilfe zum Hören. GRUNDLAGEN 01 Einführung 2:21 02 Wenn Zwänge das Leben bestimmen 5:23 03 Beispiel eines Patienten mit Zwangserkrankung ... Read more

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound... Read more

Staring at the Sun

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Gregory Gorton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable storytelling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often... Read more

Beautiful Boy

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne LamottNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.What had happened to... Read more

Gang Leader for a Day

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

Narrated by: Reg Rogers & Stephen J. Dubner

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic... Read more

The Inner Game of Tennis

By: W. Timothy Gallwey

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless guide to achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!

“Groundbreaking . . . the best guide to getting out of your own way . . . Its profound advice applies... Read more

Group Genius

By: Keith Sawyer

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong?
In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of... Read more

The Geography of Bliss

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.

Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more

The How of Happiness - Abridged

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more

The Memory Doctor

By: Douglas Mason & Spencer Smith

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your... Read more

Leadership Therapy - Abridged

By: Anna Rowley

Narrated by: Anna Rowley

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful audiobook, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in... Read more

After the Affair - Abridged

By: Janis A. Spring

Narrated by: Janis A. Spring

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dr. Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity, wisdom, spirit, and heart. This is an extremely helpful and healing book—a gift to us all.”
—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger“It is ‘must’ reading for any couple who has experienced the violation of trust as a result of an affair.”
—Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.  A staggering... Read more

Meditation, Emotion & Healing

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to meditate in this practical and encouraging program. Discover the ways in which meditation can lead you to a healthier and happier life. For many people, regular practice of these techniques results in a greater sense of peace, more emotional control, better stress management and improvement in immune function. As you get to know... Read more

The Spiritual Brain

By: Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. & Denyse O'Leary

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make... Read more

The Head Trip

By: Jeff Warren

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

By: Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.



Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.



With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively... Read more

Soul to Soul

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Gary Zukav

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER, THE SEAT OF THE SOUL

In Soul to Soul Gary Zukav addresses some of the most fundamental questions about the human experience -- from "Why is life so difficult?" to "How can I learn to trust?" -- with profound answers that are of truly universal value.

Soul to Soul provides penetrating insights... Read more

Musicophilia

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more

Musicophilia - Abridged

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.  But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more