Psychology audiobooks

The Art of Screen Time

By: Anya Kamenetz

Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally: an evidence-based, reassuring guide to what to do about kids and screens, from video games to social media.
Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the... Read more

Safe People

By: Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Narrated by: Dick Fredricks

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the friends you make and the company you keep.Too many of us have invested in relationships that have gone wrong. Maybe you've been judged, manipulated, or controlled. Or... Read more

Healing from Trauma

By: Jasmin Lee Cori

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar & Kevin Stillwell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychotherapist and trauma survivor Jasmin Lee Cori offers new insight into trauma-related difficulties (including PTSD, depression, substance abuse), provides self-care tools, candor about therapy and medications, and addresses spiritual issues.

While there are many different approaches to healing trauma, few offer a wide range of perspectives... Read more

Creative Quest

By: Questlove

Narrated by: Questlove, Fred Armisen, Tariq Trotter, Dion Fl...

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

GRAMMY NOMINEEThis unique, boundary pushing audiobook features original music by Questlove and members of The Roots with vocal guest appearances from Fred Armisen, Tariq Trotter, Dion Flynn, Robin Thede, ""Suga"" Steve Mandel, Norm MacDonald, Ludo Lefebvre, and Molly Kelly.Questlove - musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary... Read more

Because We Are Bad

By: Lily Bailey

Narrated by: Lily Bailey

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a... Read more

Modern Loss

By: Rebecca Soffer & Gabrielle Birkner

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell & Josh Bloomberg

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as ""redefining mourning,"" this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices.At a time when we mourn public... Read more

Endure

By: Alexander Hutchinson

Narrated by: Robert G. Slade

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ""Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits."" —Adam GrantLimits are an illusion: a revolutionary book that reveals the secrets of accessing your hidden extra potentialForeword by Malcolm GladwellThe capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field—from a... Read more

Cravings

By: Judy Collins

Narrated by: Judy Collins

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution.Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life. For decades she thought she simply lacked... Read more

Mindful Work

By: David Gelles

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times reporter reveals what business leaders around the country are already discovering: meditation may be the key to fostering a happier, more productive workplace.For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies, such as General Mills, Ford, Target, and Google, have... Read more

De-Escalate

By: Douglas E. Noll

Narrated by: Aleya Dao

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by award-winning author, highly experienced mediator, and co-founder of the Prison of Peace project, Douglas E. Noll, De-Escalate gives you the proven process to calm any angry person or volatile situation in 90 seconds or less.

Based on the practical experience of a master mediator and grounded in the latest findings in neuroscience,... Read more

Reckless Years

By: Heather Chaplin

Narrated by: Heather Chaplin

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The “searingly honest, brilliantly written” (Delia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a woman trying to reinvent her life who finds, after her divorce, that true freedom to make any choice means being free to make every mistake.

“What to do now, I don’t know. You see, I no longer love my husband.”

A thirty-something journalist... Read more

Perennial Seller

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that Inc. says "every entrepreneur should read" and an FT Book of the Month selection...

How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic?

How did The 48 Laws of Power miss the bestseller lists for more than a decade and still sell more than a million copies?

How... Read more

Drunks

By: Christopher M. Finan

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present dayToday, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing support for alcoholics who will face the danger of relapse... Read more

Grief Works

By: Julia Samuel

Narrated by: Julia Samuel

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning” (Vogue), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others—from the “expected” death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a child or spouse.

Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our... Read more

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

By: Daniel H. Pink

Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
Instant Washington Post Bestseller

"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street Journal

Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at... Read more

Solitude

By: Michael Harris

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kerry Shale's reading delivers lots of information clearly as Harris discusses technological developments that threaten our solitude today. While much of Harris's book is critical of those developments, Shale also captures Harris's humor and occasional indignance." — AudioFile Magazine

With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer... Read more

The Influential Mind

By: Tali Sharot

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.

In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect others—from the classroom to the boardroom to social... Read more

The Genius of Opposites

By: Jennifer B. Kahnweiler PhD

Narrated by: Tiffany Williams

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Better Together

FDR and Eleanor. Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. There are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. But these partnerships don't just happen. They demand wise nurturing.

The key, says bestselling author Jennifer Kahnweiler, is for... Read more

Micromastery

By: Robert Twigger

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Want to be a lifelong learner? Think small.

Forget spending 10,000 hours in the pursuit of perfecting just one thing. The true path to success and achievement lies in the pursuit of perfecting lots and lots of small things--for a big payoff.

Combining positive psychology, neuroscience, self-help and more, this delightfully illuminating book... Read more

Unafraid

By: Adam Hamilton

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to face and overcome the fears we feel about loneliness, illness, financial insecurity, disappointing others, failure, insignificance, and aging


“A thoughtful, literate, faith-filled guide to reclaiming our minds and our lives.”—John Ortberg, senior pastor of Menlo Church and author of I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me

You’d be... Read more

The Food Therapist

By: Shira Lenchewski

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

If you asked people to post a status update on their relationship with food, most would say "It's Complicated." We aspire to eat healthfully but find ourselves making hasty food choices driven by stress and convenience. Or we treat ourselves to a decadent dessert but feel so guilty we don't even enjoy it. The truth is we can't make good food... Read more

Quirky

By: Melissa A Schilling

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughs

What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world -- those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely creative, the many one-hit wonders among... Read more

The Evolution of Desire

By: David M. Buss

Narrated by: Greg Tremblay

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love.
If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest... Read more

Who Are You, Really?

By: Brian R. Little

Narrated by: Brian R. Little

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture—but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.

Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call the first and second natures of personality—genes and culture,... Read more