Psychology audiobooks

How Champions Think

By: Bob Rotella

Narrated by: Bob Rotella

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking guide to success from America’s preeminent sports psychologist is “so good that this reviewer has recommended it to all, golfers and non-golfers alike” (Library Journal, starred review).

Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to... Read more

Emotional Agility

By: Susan David

Narrated by: Susan David

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller
Winner of the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award
Amazon Best Book of the Year
Forbes Recommended Books for Leaders
TED Talk sensation—over 12 million views!

The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year.
 
The path... Read more

The Cyber Effect

By: Mary Aiken

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave

“A must-read for this moment in time.”—Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics • One of the best books of the year—Nature
       
Mary Aiken, the world’s leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology, offers a starting point for all future conversations... Read more

Self-Reg

By: Dr. Stuart Shanker

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

There’s no such thing as a bad kid. That’s what a lifetime of experience has taught Dr. Stuart Shanker. No matter how difficult, out of control, distracted, or exhausted a child might seem, there’s a way forward: self-regulation. Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, this radical new technique allows children and the adults who care for... Read more

The Power Paradox

By: Dacher Keltner

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.

It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced... Read more

Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dr. Martha Stout’s influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what we actually can do about it.

“Mandatory reading on how to effectively deal with sociopaths before you get hurt.”—Joe Navarro, former FBI special agent and the author of Dangerous Personalities

While the best way to deal... Read more

Negotiating the Nonnegotiable

By: Daniel Shapiro

Narrated by: Daniel Shapiro

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

** Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award **

Are you struggling to deal with conflict in your life? In Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, Harvard negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro introduces a groundbreaking method to bridge the toughest divides—whether with family members, colleagues, or in the polarized world of politics. He reveals the... Read more

The Out-of-Sync Child, Third Edition

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

2022 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.

Does your child exhibit...

Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory avoider," withdrawing... Read more

Chancers

By: Susan Stellin & Graham MacIndoe

Narrated by: Susan Stellin & Graham MacIndoe

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In this powerful memoir of addiction, prison, and recovery, a reporter and a photographer tell their gripping story of falling in love, the heroin habit that drove them apart, and the unlikely way a criminal conviction brought them back together.

Books for a Better Life Award Finalist • LitHub Best Book of the Month

When Susan Stellin asked... Read more

A Murder Over a Girl

By: Ken Corbett

Narrated by: Ken Corbett

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate

On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and... Read more

Loving What Is

By: Byron Katie & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, MacLeod Andrews ...

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of nowhere, like a cool breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.”

In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the... Read more

The Awakened Family

By: Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." —Oprah Winfrey

As seen on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves, from the New York Times bestselling author of The... Read more

Pathways to Possibility

By: Rosamund Stone Zander

Narrated by: Rosamund Stone Zander

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rosamund Zander is a miracle. Her generous voice will resonate with you, change you and help you create work that matters." —Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception

The bestselling author of The Art of Possibility returns with a new vision for achieving true human fulfillment that's sure to appeal to fans of Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and... Read more

Inside of a Dog

By: Alexandra Horowitz

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED! The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller that “causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude” (The New York Times Book Review).

The instant classic on the mind of the dog is now updated to include the latest results in the booming field of dog cognition. What do dogs know? How do they... Read more

On Fire

By: John O'Leary

Narrated by: John O'Leary

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicic’s Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7-step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possibility—from an inspirational speaker who survived a near-fatal fire at the age of nine and now runs a successful business inspiring people all around the world.

When... Read more

Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Make America Great Again? Donald Trump is an asshole is a fact widely agreed upon—even by his supporters, who actually like that about him. But his startling political rise makes the question of just what sort of asshole he is, and how his assholedom may help to explain his success, one not just of philosophical interest but of almost... Read more

Positive Discipline Parenting Tools

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Mary Nelsen Tamborski & Bra...

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Kathleen McInerney & Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you wish there was a way to raise well-behaved children without punishment? Are you afraid the only alternative is being overly indulgent? With Positive Discipline, an encouragement model based on both kindness and firmness, you don’t have to choose between these two extremes. Using these 49 Positive Discipline tools, honed and perfected... Read more

River of Time

By: Naomi Judd

Narrated by: Naomi Judd & Carolyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a young sibling, and absent emotional support, Naomi found herself reluctantly married and an expectant mother at age seventeen. Four years later, she... Read more

Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Narrated by: Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book will make a world of difference in the lives of people with OCD.” —Eric Hollander, M.D., Compulsive, Impulsive & Anxiety Disorders Program, Mt. Sinai School of MedicineThe definitive classic that has helped more than 400,000 people defeat obsessive-compulsive behavior, with all-new material from the authorAn estimated 5 million... Read more

Against Empathy

By: Paul Bloom

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family.Most people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to... Read more

Exceeding Expectations

By: Lisa April Smith

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Palm Beach, 1961. Socialite, irresistible rascal, and devoted father Jack Morgan stages his suicide to shield his beloved daughters from scandal and disgrace. His daughter Charlotte (Charlie) is an over-indulged twenty-three-year-old girl struggling to cope with the loss of her beloved father, her sister’s resulting mental breakdown, and the... Read more

Running On Empty

By: Jonice Webb, Ph.D & Christine Musello, PsyD

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you sometimes feel as if you're just going through the motions in life? Are you good at looking and acting as if you're fine, but secretly feel lonely and disconnected? If so, you are not alone. The world is full of people who have an innate sense that something is wrong with them. Who feel they live on the outside looking in, but have no... Read more

Thinking

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.




—Daniel Kahneman on the power (and pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking.




—Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and... Read more

This Idea Must Die

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014, he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as... Read more