Psychology audiobooks

The Secret Power of Writing With Gabriele Rico

By: Gabriele Rico

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriele Rico describes how she repressed the pain of her mother’s death when she was seven years old, and suffered from her own constricted feelings until she discovered the healing power of writing. Here she shares with us her discovery of how to acknowledge and release long-held feelings which prevent us from living fully and freely. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

You Just Don't Understand - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later,... Read more

If You Really Loved Me - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Ann Rule

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There was only one way to please her father: Murder his wife....

David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. The California courts sentenced her... Read more

Of Kings and Warriors

By: Robert Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Within each of us are four fundamental archetypes--King, Warrior, Magician and Lover--which Robert Moore describes as "programs for human emotional, behavioral and mental functioning." These archetypes need to be recognized and integrated into our lives for us to achieve maturity and self-realization. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Essential Reality

By: David Bohm, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bohm addresses the nature of thought and thinking, and how our conditioned minds become subordinate to the way we think. He says the thinking process “is a representation of what is, but is not what is” and goes on to challenge our perception of time and space as illusory. This conversation ranges from mindless thought to experiencing each... Read more

Living and Working With Heart

By: Linda Marks

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Tapping the power that resides within each of us to encode all of our actions with love provides the central focus of this dialogue. Finding purpose, facing pain, learning trust, understanding money, discovering joy are covered by Marks, a body-centered psychotherapist, lifework counselor and management consultant. Read more

Beyond Blame, Guilt and Shame

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Trained as both a biologist and a psychologist, Joan Borysenko has had a lifelong interest in the connections between science, psychology and spirituality. Exploring ways to shed self-blame and the pessimism of unhealthy guilt, she retrieves the wonder and mystery of being alive, and reviews the 21 telling “expressions” that indicate excessive... Read more

Myths, Symbols, Stories: Bi-Cultural Vision

By: Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Basque native, Arrien is at the forefront of those who see the common threads that unite us while honoring our differences. She speaks of the importance of myth and symbol in everyday life and combines the two disciplines of anthropology and psychology. Her cross-cultural approach provides both a universal and practical means of addressing... Read more

The Hero Inside

By: Carol Pearson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the six main archetypes of the Hero’s journey? Pearson provides a map to chart and examine the heroic archetypes that exist in all of us, enabling us to better understand our own quest. Read more

The Gods in Everyone

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Both men and women carry the archetypal patterns of gods and goddesses. Here, Bolen, a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, discusses the power of this dynamic in our lives. She describes the Greek gods and their relevance in a patriarchal culture. Through understanding the different aspects of these gods, we can come to inhabit our lives more... Read more

Beyond Dependence

By: Sue Patton Thoele

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Creativity and freedom come when we break the bonds of dependence and allow ourselves to stand as whole human beings without the need of external and artificial supports. This is everyone's challenge, but especially so for women, since their voices and energy are so needed now, according to Thoele, a psychotherapist. She describes her own... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Sacred Odyssey: Seeking Freedom

By: Ram Dass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A 1990 return visit with the spiritual pilgrim whose personal journey for more than four decades has served as a reflective mirror for so many. He speaks about where he is now in his life; how methods are traps; overcoming fear in the midst of change; spiritual potential; the true source of change; facing adversity; the challenge of doing good;... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

New Visions of Consciousness

By: Stanislav Grof, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer in the exploration of the human mind and psyche, Grof points to a vast domain, far beyond the mechanistic conception of human memory, that opens to the full range of the human past and present. He speaks to a unity underlying apparent separateness--a continuity of experience which pervades consciousness. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

The Different Drum - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For a World in Conflict...
New Hope for Wholeness in the Modern Age!
A society of rugged individualists and economic competitors A world of nuclear politics and uncontrollable forces For many, modern living means loneliness, disaffection, apathy and isolation.
Is there an escape?

In a startling, life-affirming work by one of America's... Read more

Creating Freedom

By: James Fadiman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Freedom comes from within and requires seeing and transforming the blocks inside that hold us captive. Psychologist Fadiman views himself as "seeing things differently, and I call it consulting." Indeed, his perspective challenges us to examine how we hold ourselves back and to explore the possibilities for greater freedom and sanity in our lives. Read more

The Art of Creativity

By: Betty Edwards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Here the author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain tells how to use drawing to tap into the powers of the dual brain function for enhancing creativity, imagination, and problem solving. The capacity to create is within everyone, according to Edwards, and she provides a wealth of insight for everyone interested in creative problem solving... Read more

Helping Yourself

By: Ram Dass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In his inimitable and articulate style, Ram Dass talks about serving others, i.e., helping as a path of wholeness. A legend in his own time, he brings a wealth of direct experience as a psychologist, seeker and spiritual teacher together with a wonderful ability to reveal himself fully, serving as a mirror from which we can reflect our own journey. Read more

Becoming Whole

By: Virginia Satir

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Acknowledged by her peers as the "therapist's therapist," the late Virginia Satir traveled the planet sharing her insightful wisdom and changing people's lives for the better. In this dialogue she speaks about shifting family and workplace environments, plus a great deal more. Read more

The Fourth World Community

By: Gregory McGee & John Papworth

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the midst of the Superpowers and the Third World, a new vision is emerging of a Fourth World, encompassing small communities as an alternative to the notion that “bigger is better.” Returning power to a personal level is one of the goals and Papworth provides some useful ways to meet the challenge he so eloquently describes. Read more