Psychology audiobooks

The Hoarder in You

By: Dr. Robin Zasio

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

We all have treasured possessions—a favorite pair of shoes, a
much-beloved chair, an ever-expanding record collection. But sometimes,
this emotional attachment to our belongings can spiral out of control
and culminate into a condition called compulsive hoarding. From
hobbyists and collectors to pack rats and compulsive shoppers—it is
close to... Read more

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child

By: Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can create a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with your child.

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child... Read more

The Two-Second Advantage

By: Kevin Maney & Vivek Ranadive

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What made Wayne Gretzky the greatest hockey player of all time wasn't
his speed on the ice or the uncanny accuracy of his shots, but rather
his ability to predict where the puck was going to be an instant before
it arrived. In other words, it was Gretzky's brain that made him
exceptional. Over the past fifteen years, scientists have found that... Read more

The High-Beta Rich

By: Robert Frank

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts—models of financial propriety—suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic... Read more

The Science of Evil

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common—lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world.



In The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has... Read more

Project Rebirth

By: Courtney E. Martin & Dr. Robin Stern

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The images of the burning towers, the heartbroken friends building memorials, the minute-by-minute accounts of the horrors of that day—all are indelibly etched on our collective consciousness. But what of those left behind after 9/11? What have they, and we, learned from the gift of time?



In Project Rebirth, a psychologist and a journalist... Read more

InSideOut Coaching

By: Joe Ehrmann, Paula Ehrmann & Gregory Jordan

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL standout, is a dynamic motivational speaker and seminar leader, addressing audiences nationwide about the unparalleled platform, power, and position coaches have to transform their players' lives and impact families, schools, and communities. Recognized for his revolutionary concepts of teambuilding, mentoring, and... Read more

The Tell-Tale Brain

By: V. S. Ramachandran

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field—so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain... Read more

Lessons in Loss and Living

By: Michele A. Reiss

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer.



Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of... Read more

Sleights of Mind

By: Sandra Blakeslee, Stephen L. Macknik & Susana M...

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses your mind's intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu, to fool you every time,... Read more

Composing a Further Life

By: Mary Catherine Bateson

Narrated by: Sevanne Kassarjian

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women—herself included—who, upon entering this second adulthood, have found new meaning and new ways to contribute, composing their lives in new... Read more

On Second Thought

By: Wray Herbert

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Our brains are marvels, hard-wired by millions of years of evolution to boast a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to negotiate our complicated lives without overthinking every choice and decision we have to make. Unfortunately, those ancient shortcuts don't always work to our advantage in our modern lives—when we don't... Read more

The Husbands and Wives Club

By: Laurie Abraham

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in spring 2006, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" the resulting article generated intense reader response. While space limitations allowed Abraham to focus only on one couple in her article, this book,... Read more

Manufacturing Depression

By: Gary Greenberg

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured—not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at... Read more

Amen, Amen, Amen

By: Abby Sher

Narrated by: Abby Sher

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Until the age of ten, comedian and writer Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands and counting her steps, collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm... Read more

The Pickup Artist

By: Mystery

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pickup Artist is a salacious book about the continuing adventures of the world's most famous pickup artist, Mystery, who was first introduced as the ringleader of a subculture of pickup artists chronicled in Neil Strauss's 2005 bestseller The Game. After fame, fortune, and reality television, a group of pickup artists live in a gorgeous... Read more

Why Women Have Sex

By: David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When Cindy M. Meston, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them.



Through the voices of real women, Meston and... Read more

Think Smart

By: Richard Restak

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Think Smart, the renowned neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak details how each of us can improve and tone our body's most powerful organ: the brain.



As an expert on the brain, Restak knows that in the last five years there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain and its performance. So he has asked his... Read more

Feeling Good Together

By: David D. Burns, M.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know people who are hard to get along with. It might be your spouse, mother, neighbor, friend, or colleague. In his new book Feeling Good Together, Dr. David D. Burns describes Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT), a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships with the people you care about.



Based on... Read more

Can't Remember What I Forgot

By: Sue Halpern

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so "hot" that leaving through the front door of the lab would trigger the alarm. This was not the first time that Halpern had her head examined... Read more

Your Child's Strengths

By: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns... Read more

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

By: Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.



Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.



With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively... Read more

Gut Feelings

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerd Gigerenzer is one of the researchers of behavioral intuition responsible for the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink. Gladwell showed us how snap decisions often yield better results than careful analysis. Now, Gigerenzer explains why our intuition is such a powerful decision-making tool.



Drawing on a decade of research at... Read more

The Personality Code

By: Travis Bradberry

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Personality Code clearly and persuasively demonstrates how personality determines why we do what we do and how we can maximize our strengths, work smarter with others, and profit from better relationships in our careers. Based on the IDISC(tm) Personality Profile—an updated and rigorously validated proprietary version of DISC, the world's... Read more