Psychology audiobooks

Cringeworthy

By: Melissa Dahl

Narrated by: Melissa Dahl

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and asks: what if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable?

Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a... Read more

Enlightenment Now

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the... Read more

Brain Bytes

By: Eric Chudler & Lise Johnson

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Neuroscience in small bits for the brain-curious.

From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and center. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears.

In Brain Bytes, neuroscience educators Eric Chudler and Lise Johnson get... Read more

Do I have Alzheimer's?

By: John Medina

Narrated by: John Medina

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding of the brain. All of it is captivating. A great deal of it is unexpected. “Do I have Alzheimer’s? by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to age well—in his engaging signature... Read more

The Science of Sleep

By: John Medina

Narrated by: John Medina

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Science of Sleep, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to sleep well—in his signature engaging style. Adapted from Medina's Brain Rules for Aging Well:10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp, in this chapter you'll learn how the sleep cycle is born of a constant tension... Read more

The Self-Driven Child

By: William Stixrud, PhD & Ned Johnson

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Instead of trusting kids with choices . . . many parents insist on micromanaging everything from homework to friendships. For these parents, Stixrud and Johnson have a simple message: Stop.” —NPR

“This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents.” —Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling... Read more

Everything Is Workable

By: Diane Musho Hamilton

Narrated by: Diane Musho Hamilton

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Conflict is going to be part of your life--as long as you have relationships, hold down a job, or have dry cleaning to be picked up. Bracing yourself against it won't make it go away, but if you approach it consciously, you can navigate it in a way that not only honors everyone involved but makes it a source of deep insight as well. Seasoned... Read more

The Power of Divine Eros

By: A. H. Almaas & Karen Johnson

Narrated by: A. H. Almaas & Karen Johnson

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it.

Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path--that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly... Read more

Mindful Eating

By: Jan Chozen Bays

Narrated by: Jan Chozen Bays & Kaleo Griffith

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food--and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help with food... Read more

The Good News About Bad Behavior

By: Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Narrated by: Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone.

Why don't our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the blame for misbehavior, but this obscures a broader trend: in our modern, highly connected age, children have less self-control than ever. About half of the current generation of children will develop a... Read more

Wake Up!

By: Chris Baréz-Brown

Narrated by: Chris Baréz-Brown

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

DON’T WASTE A MINUTE OF YOUR EXTRAORDINARY LIFE!You have an unlimited capacity to have fun, meet amazing people, and feel truly awake every single day. But do you? When you’re living on autopilot (and most people are—80 percent of the time), those opportunities pass you by.Snap out of it! Any one of the fifty-four playful strategies in Wake Up!... Read more

Freud

By: Frederick Crews

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 25 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—and for excellent reasons. Nevertheless, the idea persists that some of his proposals were visionary discoveries. In Freud: The Making... Read more

The Stressed Years of Their Lives

By: Dr. B. Janet Hibbs & Dr. Anthony Rostain

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late.

“The title says it all...Chock full of practical tools, resources and the wisdom that comes with... Read more

The Performance Cortex

By: Zach Schonbrun

Narrated by: Thomas Vincent Kelly

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Athletic genius explained. A groundbreaking new perspective on the science of elite sporting performance.

Why couldn't Michael Jordan, master athlete that he was, hit a baseball? Why can't modern robotics come close to replicating the dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do good quarterbacks always seem to know where their receivers are?

In this... Read more

Advice Not Given

By: Mark Epstein, M.D.

Narrated by: Mark Epstein, M.D.

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book is a tonic for the ailments of our time.”—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth 

Our ego, and its accompanying sense of... Read more

Changeable

By: J. Stuart Ablon

Narrated by: J. Stuart Ablon

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on The Mel Robbins Show—discover the surprising science of helping anyone change

Whether as a parent, a boss, a romantic partner, or on your own journey toward personal growth, you know how hard it is to change problem behavior. Conventional methods like willpower, punishment, and strict discipline often backfire, creating a downward... Read more

Journey Through Trauma

By: Gretchen L. Schmelzer, PhD

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For survivors of PTSD and repeated, relational trauma -- and the people who love them.

Gretchen Schmelzer watched too many people quit during treatment for trauma recovery. They found it too difficult or too frightening or just decided that for them it was too late. But as a therapist and trauma survivor herself, Dr. Schmelzer wants us to know... Read more

The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

By: Douglas A. Riley

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-needed tool that parents of children with O.D.D. can use to identify the source of this turmoil and take back parental control. Dr. Douglas Riley teaches parents how to recognize the signs, understand the attitudes, and modify the behavior of their oppositional child. Read more

I'm Just Happy to Be Here

By: Janelle Hanchett

Narrated by: Janelle Hanchett

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." -- POPSUGAR

"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir." -- Kirkus

"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction . . . [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery and sobriety in imperfect and unconventional ways." --... Read more

Free to Learn

By: Peter Gray

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn.

"All kids love learning. Most don't love school. That's a disconnect we've avoided discussing—until this lightning bolt of a book. If you've ever wondered why your curious kid is turning into a sullen... Read more

Infidelity

By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What the latest science tells us about the brain's reward systems, love, and sex -- and how to prevent an affair from destroying your life

How can I prevent an affair from destroying my life? Whether I am the cheater or the betrayed partner, how can I survive, even thrive, in the wake of an affair? Infidelity provides key insights to find your... Read more

Inventing Ourselves

By: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Narrated by: Sarah Borges

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior

The brain creates every feeling, emotion, and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed... Read more

Develop Your Assertiveness

By: Sue Bishop

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Develop Your Assertiveness offers simple techniques that will help you become more aware of your strengths and weaknesses, so that you can learn how best to modify your behaviour in social and business interactions. Being more confident and learning how best to communicate with your colleagues will enable you to create win-win situations, thus... Read more

The Possibility Principle

By: Mel Schwartz

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you like to experience your life? It’s an intriguing question, and yet we’ve been conditioned to believe our life visions and goals are often unattainable—until now. With The Possibility Principle, psychotherapist Mel Schwartz offers a revolutionary approach to living the life we choose.Though science has vastly expanded our knowledge,... Read more