Psychology audiobooks

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By: Light Watkins

Narrated by: Light Watkins

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s top meditation teachers and mindfulness experts comes a revolutionarily simple approach to everyday practice—especially if you don’t think you have the time or the patience.

Imagine you’re sitting on a cushion with your legs crossed, ready to tap into unlimited joy. There’s just one problem: You can’t get comfortable (let... Read more

The Champion Mindset

By: Joanna Zeiger

Narrated by: Joanna Zeiger

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An in-depth mental motivational audiobook for all athletes from Olympian Dr. Joanna Zeiger that offers game-changing strategies for programming your brain to achieve physical excellence.

Champions, as the familiar adage preaches, are not born—they're made. Reaching the top of any sport, or any aspect of life, takes years upon years of dedication... Read more

How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition)

By: John Holt

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how... Read more

The First 1,000 Days

By: Roger Thurow

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Your child can achieve great things."

A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true. Among them were Esther Okwir in rural Uganda, where the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world; Jessica Saldana, a high school student in a violence-scarred Chicago neighborhood;... Read more

Jumping at Shadows

By: Sasha Abramsky

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that he shoots her dead? Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more far more common acts of violence? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed only a handful of Americans, provoke panic,... Read more

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Narrated by: Beverly Daniel Tatum

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to... Read more

The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans

By: Josh Shipp

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical guide to understanding teens from bestselling author and global youth advocate Josh Shipp.In 2015, Harvard researchers found that every child who does well in the face of adversity has had at least one stable and committed relationship with a supportive adult. But Josh Shipp didn’t need Harvard to know that. Once an at-risk foster... Read more

Can't Just Stop

By: Sharon Begley

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Using in-depth case studies, Can’t Just Stop examines the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior—“a fascinating read about human behavior and how it can go haywire” (The Charlotte Observer).

Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something most of us have witnessed in daily... Read more

Stick with It

By: Sean D. Young

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior shows everyone how to make real, lasting change in their lives in this exciting work of popular psychology that goes beyond The Power of Habit with science and practical strategies that can alter their problem behaviors—forever.Whether it’s absent-minded mistakes... Read more

Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children

By: Roberta Michnick Golink, PhD; Kathy Hirsh-Pase...

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller!

Bronze medal winner of the Living Now Book Awards for Parenting!

In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck... Read more

Other Minds

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds

Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the... Read more

The Power of Different

By: Gail Saltz, M.D.

Narrated by: Gail Saltz, M.D.

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be “disabilities,” revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths.

In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling author Gail Saltz examines the latest scientific... Read more

Boys Adrift

By: Leonard Sax

Narrated by: Allan Robertson

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it.

Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working... Read more

Becoming Myself

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoir
Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare: He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an... Read more

The Dead Moms Club

By: Kate Spencer

Narrated by: Kate Spencer

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through gruesome grief and come out on the other side.

An... Read more

Warrior Mom

By: JJ Virgin

Narrated by: JJ Virgin

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside every mother is a fierce, resilient, intuitive woman who has the ability to tap into an indomitable mindset and create heroic outcomes—for her children, her family, her community and for herself—she is a Warrior Mom.

In Warrior Mom, (previously published as Miracle Mindset), celebrity health expert and four-time New York Times bestselling... Read more

Elastic

By: Leonard Mlodinow

Narrated by: Leonard Mlodinow

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change, and at how tapping into elastic thinking will help us thrive in the modern world.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on an illuminating journey through the mechanics of our minds as we navigate the... Read more

Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection

Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries... Read more

Rewired

By: Erica Spiegelman

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A counselor at one of the most innovative and renowned drug and alcohol treatment centers in the world introduces an empowering approach to addiction recovery that addresses the whole self—mind, body, and spirit

This “useful and practical perspective on what you can do to recover from [addiction]” can replace or supplement 12-step programs—at any... Read more

After the Affair, Updated Second Edition

By: Janis A. Spring

Narrated by: Xe Sands & Janis A. Spring

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A staggering number of couples in America—about 70 percent—have been affected by extramarital affairs. After the Affair is the only book to offer proven strategies for surviving the crisis and rebuilding the relationship. Written by Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., a nationally known therapist and acknowledged expert on infidelity, this revised and... Read more

Good Grief

By: Theresa Caputo

Narrated by: Theresa Caputo

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo, star of Long Island Medium and Raising Spirits provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered and healed by her spiritual readings.

After more than a decade of being a practicing medium, Theresa... Read more

Supernormal

By: Meg Jay

Narrated by: Meg Jay

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.

Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical... Read more

The Perfect You

By: Dr. Caroline Leaf

Narrated by: Margaret Winston

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

There are a lot of personality tests out there designed to label you and put you in a particular box. But Dr. Caroline Leaf says there’s much more to you than a personality profile can capture. In fact, you cannot be categorized!In this fascinating book, she takes readers through seven steps to rediscover and unlock their unique "you... Read more

F*cked

By: Krystyna Hutchinson & Corinne Fisher

Narrated by: Krystyna Hutchinson & Corinne Fisher

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson started Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast in 2013, intending to interview guys they'd slept with to learn more about themselves and squash the stigma so often associated with sexual women. As the podcast grew, and Corinne and Krystyna got to know their fans, stories of sexual assault,... Read more