Psychology audiobooks

Brainblocks

By: Theo Tsaousides

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Brainblocks are the mental obstacles that keep people from achieving success, defined as setting, pursuing, and achieving a goal.

Managing the brain is the solution to preventing mental blocks from interfering with achieving your goals. And neuropsychologist Dr. Theo Tsaousides gives you the tools to improve:

Awareness:

• the... Read more

The Conscious Mind

By: Zoltan Torey

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the... Read more

Memoirs Extraordinary Populare Delusions and the Madness Crowds

By: Charles MacKay

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 27 hours

Abridged: No

Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and... Read more

The Brain Sell

By: Dr. David Lewis

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Science has made the leap from the lab to come to a store near you—and the effects on us are phenomenal. Corporations in hyper-competition are now using the new mind sciences to analyze how and when we shop, and the hidden triggers that persuade us to consume.

From bargains in the Big Apple to the bustling bazaars of Istanbul, from in-store to... Read more

Creativity

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be... Read more

Commitment...The Flame Focused Passion

By: Edwene Gaines

Narrated by: Edwene Gaines

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audio recording of the Commitment workshop recorded at Unity of Dayton, Ohio, focusing on the intense power of commitments, how to make them, how to keep from over-committing, and how to determine which are ours to make.
Mastery begins with self-examination. Find out what is running your life. Take charge of the process. Achieve your... Read more

Bouncing Forward

By: Michaela Haas

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book of its kind in the new science of posttraumatic growth: a cutting-edge look at how trauma survivors find healing and new resilienceThe uplifting science of posttraumatic growth presents groundbreaking research and proven methods to survive and thrive in the face of challenges. Twelve inspiring role models share their profound... Read more

All the Things We Never Knew

By: Sheila Hamilton

Narrated by: Sheila Hamilton

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Even as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David’s mental illness unfolded before her. By the time she had pieced together the puzzle, it was too late. Her once brilliant, intense, and hilarious partner was dead within six weeks of a formal diagnosis of bipolar disorder, leaving his nine-year-old daughter and wife... Read more

The Brain Fog Fix

By: Mike Dow

Narrated by: Mike Dow

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A new epidemic is sweeping the country. Some people call it ADHD, scatter brain, or brain fog. Some simply say they just don’t feel like themselves—and haven’t for a long time.People are thinking and feeling worse than ever. Why? Because our brains are not getting the support they need to produce the essential brain chemicals that keep us... Read more

The Theater of War

By: Bryan Doerries

Narrated by: Adam Driver

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.For years, Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and... Read more

Never Again

By: Richard La Plante

Narrated by: Richard La Plante

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Never again,” Richard La Plante promised after he and his new wife completed building their family home in East Hampton, New York. But he did not keep his promise. Instead he bought twenty acres of raw land on a mountaintop located three-and-a-half thousand miles away in a small town that he had only visited by Internet … and the nightmare... Read more

Becoming Fluent

By: Richard Roberts & Roger Kreuz

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, students may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don’t seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do?In Becoming... Read more

NeuroTribes

By: Steve Silberman

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Capture

By: David A. Kessler

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

""A breakthrough book. In a world of increasingly specialized knowledge, it takes a particular gift and some stubbornness to cut across the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy and psychology and to ask the fundamental question: Why it is that we can allow our best selves to be captured by and torpedoed by thoughts and actions that... Read more

The Natural

By: Richard La Ruina

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s top pick-up artists, Richard La Ruina went from having no women to being a true master of seduction. Now he shows you how to do the same. So move over Mystery, and tell Neil Strauss that The Rules of the Game are about to be rewritten. Every element of the winning pickup is right here, from discovering confidence to exuding... Read more

A Mind of Your Own

By: Kelly Brogan, M.D. & Kristin Loberg

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Depression is not a disease. It is a symptom.Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. These drugs have steadily become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress.  But the truth is, what women really... Read more

Raising Ryland

By: Hillary Whittington

Narrated by: Hillary Whittington

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother’s first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl... Read more

Conviction

By: Juan Martinez

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi... Read more

The Power of the Other

By: Henry Cloud

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An expert on the psychology of leadership and the bestselling author of Integrity, Necessary Endings, and Boundaries For Leaders identifies the critical ingredient for personal and professional wellbeing.Most leadership coaching focuses on helping leaders build their skills and knowledge and close performance gaps. These are necessary, but not... Read more

Why We Work

By: Barry Schwartz

Narrated by: Barry Schwartz

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.

Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.

We’ve long been taught that the... Read more

The Sleep Revolution

By: Arianna Huffington

Narrated by: Agapi Stassinopoulos

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives--and even our sex lives in this New York Times bestseller.

We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, with... Read more

Life Reimagined

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Narrated by: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good.

There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the... Read more

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded)

By: Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

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

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this completely revised and updated edition, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen includes effective "brain prescriptions" that can help heal your brain and change your life.

“Perfection in combining leading-edge brain science technology with a proven, user-friendly, definitive, and actionable road map to safeguard and... Read more

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By: Tom Vanderbilt

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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