Psychology audiobooks

His Bright Light

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Traci Godfrey

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.

“This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race... Read more

Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives.

Everything we think and everything we choose to do alters our brain and fundamentally... Read more

Stumbling on Happiness

By: Daniel Gilbert

Narrated by: Daniel Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it.

Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely... Read more

Made to Stick

By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick.

“Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—The Washington Post
 
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway... Read more

How to Improve Your Memory

By: Harry Lorayne

Narrated by: Harry Lorayne

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Increase your powers of recall and retention with Harry Lorayne's famous Memory Development Program

How to Improve Your Memory teaches you proved techniques to help remember phone numbers, prices, appointments, speeches, lists, and much more. By applying the Lorayne link and peg system of memory development you will be able to:

* Better your... Read more

How to Remember Names and Faces

By: Harry Lorayne

Narrated by: Harry Lorayne

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Remember the name - but can't remember the face?
Remember the face - but can't remember the name?

Harry Lorayne's easy-to-use techniques will teach you how!

How important is recalling a name or face? No matter how briefly you may have met, remembering someone can be a crucial social and business skill. By applying Lorayne's proven system of memory... Read more

The Female Brain

By: Louann Brizendine, MD

Narrated by: Louann Brizendine, MD

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound... 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

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

My Age of Anxiety

By: Scott Stossel

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition
 
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness.... Read more

Why We Make Mistakes

By: Joseph T. Hallinan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?

We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the... 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

Switch

By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! The ultimate guide to making changes and following through, from the authors of Made to Stick and Decisive—hailed as “witty and instructive” (The Wall Street Journal), “packed with examples and hands-on tools that will get you moving right away” (BusinessWeek)

Why is it so hard to make... Read more

Positivity

By: Barbara Fredrickson

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls "the upward spiral."

You’ll discover:

•What positivity is, and why it needs to be heartfelt to be effective
• The ten sometimes surprising forms of positivity
• Why... Read more

Subliminal

By: Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Leonard Mlodinow

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates,... 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

How to Read a Person Like a Book

By: Gerard I. Nierenberg & Henry H. Calero

Narrated by: Various

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Read a Person Like a Book teaches listeners how to understand the strangers, friends, work colleagues around them by reading their body language. 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

Before Happiness

By: Shawn Achor

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This fresh, uplifting book is filled with ideas for improving our organizations and our lives.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife

“With his characteristic blend of academic rigor and twinkle in the eye, Shawn Achor will change your view of happiness, of... Read more

Masterminds and Wingmen

By: Rosalind Wiseman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common and difficult challenges -- by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls.
 
Do you constantly struggle to pull information from your son, student, or athlete, only to... Read more

The Future of the Mind

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Compelling….Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip”
—The New York Times Book Review


The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACEtackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human... Read more

Coming Alive

By: Barry Michels & Phil Stutz

Narrated by: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Tap into the life force to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential with this transformative book by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Tools (and the resident shrinks on Goop).

In The Tools, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth and self-actualization by... Read more

Underground

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale & Janet Song

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.
 
On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who... Read more

Seductive Poison

By: Deborah Layton

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur & Deborah Layton

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor, Seductive Poison is the "truly unforgettable" (Kirkus Review) story of how one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and how she found her way back to sanity.

From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult... Read more