Psychology audiobooks

This is Your Brain on Sports

By: L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Sam Sommers & Keith Szarabajka

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them.  Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the inner world of sports.  Through the... Read more

It Didn't Start With You

By: Mark Wolynn

Narrated by: Mark Wolynn

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
 
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our... Read more

No Time for Tears

By: Judy Heath

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Facing the loss of a loved one in a death-avoidant culture can be excruciating. Grievers may be expected to put on a brave face, to “move on” quickly, and to seek medication if they are still grief-stricken after an “acceptable” amount of time. Psycho­therapist Judy Heath draws on extensive experience as a grief specialist in private practice to... Read more

Meditation Made Easy

By: Preston Bentley

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

There's more to meditation than just rhythmically chanting "Om" in a seated position - inner calm can be achieved through the simplest of actions, such as mindfully drinking a cup of tea. This guide shows you how to harness the power of meditation in your daily life with a variety of meditation techniques that you can learn and carry out in just... Read more

Choosing Love

By: Sherianna Boyle

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Fearful Living to Fearless Loving! Are you ready to see love in a whole new light, let go of your deepest fears and everyday stresses, and experience real joy and abundance? Choosing Love redefines the way you perceive love and teaches you how to connect with yourself—and others—in ways you've never imagined. Using her years of expertise as... Read more

You're Lying

By: Lena Sisco

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Lena wrote You're Lying! because no matter what your profession or life circumstances, you need the skills to take control of a situation, detect deception, and reveal the truth. While you probably won't ever have to interrogate a detainee who doesn't want to tell you about an upcoming terrorist attack--as Lena has--You're Lying! will help you... Read more

The Book of Human Emotions

By: Tiffany Watt Smith

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful, gleeful encyclopedia of emotions, both broad and outrageously specific, from throughout history and around the world.

How do you feel today? Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok or... Read more

Why You Love Music

By: John Powell

Narrated by: Phil Fox

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.

Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people... Read more

Your Mind

By: Christopher Cortman & Harold Shinitzky

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

During their more than 80,000 hours facilitating psychotherapy, Drs. Cortman and Shinitzky realized that most people are unaware of 10 crucial psychological truths--truths imperative to maintaining mental health and well-being. As a result of this lack of awareness, they become anxious, depressed, and generally unhappy; if they learn the 10... Read more

Head in the Cloud

By: William Poundstone

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map; don't know what Frank Lloyd Wright did for living; can't say how many calories are in a Big Mac or how many candles are on a menorah. How important it is to know things, anyway?... Read more

Media Moms & Digital Dads

By: Yalda T. Uhls

Narrated by: Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Is social media ruining our kids? How much internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? Are you curious about what research says about how media and technology are impacting childhood? Supported by academic research focused on technology, Media Moms & Digital Dads breaks down complex... Read more

The Courage to Create

By: Rollo May

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Extraordinary, wise, and hopeful... nearly poetic meditations."—Boston Globe
What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find... Read more

Finding Flow

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Sean Pratt

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives. Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce... Read more

Created for Connection

By: Dr. Sue Johnson & Kenneth Sanderfer

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." -- 1 John 4:8

Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one gone awry? Do you yearn to grow closer to God, and to further incorporate Him and His teachings into your marriage? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and faith. But sometimes... Read more

Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind

By: George Northoff

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Applying insights from neuroscience to philosophical questions about the self, consciousness, and the healthy mind.

Can we “see” or “find” consciousness in the brain? How can we create working definitions of consciousness and subjectivity, informed by what contemporary research and technology have taught us about how the brain works? How do... Read more

Momma and the Meaning of Life

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful follow-up to his bestselling Love’s Executioner In six enthralling stories drawn from his own clinical experience, Irvin D. Yalom once again proves himself an intrepid explorer of the human psyche as he guides his... Read more

First Bite

By: Bee Wilson

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste and nutrition; as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet, and what food will give us the most energy for the coming day. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?In First Bite, the beloved food writer Bee Wilson draws on the... Read more

Lying on the Couch

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Tony Pasqualini

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Love’s Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept comes a provocative exploration of the unusual relationships three therapists form with their patients.Seymour is a therapist of the old school who blurs the boundary of sexual propriety with one of his clients. Marshal, who is haunted by his own obsessive-compulsive... Read more

Weapons of Mass Destruction

By: Margaret Vandenburg

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For patriots like Billy Sinclair, the Iraq War started on 9/11. He is primed to kill in the backwoods of Montana, hunting with his buddy Pete under the tutelage of his grandfather, a decorated World War II veteran. When they kill their first deer, Grandpa smears its blood on their faces in honor of Pete’s great-great-grandfather, a Sioux scout... Read more

21 Days to Resilience

By: Zelana Montminy

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, practical three-week program to help you cope with life’s tough moments, overcome misfortune, build habitual resiliency, and ultimately boost your overall happiness.Truly happy and successful people share a common trait: resilience. Not only do they know how to rebound from setbacks, they are strengthened by challenges, gaining... Read more

Care of the Soul, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Ed

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Charles Bice

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times BestsellerWith a new introduction by the author and additional material, this 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by Thomas Moore provides a powerful spiritual message for our troubled times.In this special 25th anniversary edition of Thomas Moore’s bestselling book Care of the Soul readers are... Read more

An Abbreviated Life

By: Ariel Leve

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a psychologically harrowing childhood as she seeks... Read more

The Maximum Security Book Club

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more

Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life

By: Margaret Moore, Edward Phillips & John Hanc

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From a top wellness coach and a Harvard Medical School professor, comes this revolutionary book that will show you how to identify and decode your nine most basic emotional needs—and coach yourself to a calmer, healthier, and happier life.The more you thrive, the better your brain functions, and you’re able to perform at the best level. Your... Read more