Psychology audiobooks

An Offering of Native Wisdom

By: Anne Wilson Schaef

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This "recovering psychotherapist" discovered her own Native American heritage when she was well into adulthood. Her journeys into many indigenous cultures revealed how her "white mind" could begin to learn the truths that they have practiced for millennia. Read more

Laugh Your Way to Health

By: Allen Klein

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It may be just a mood, but when it's bad, it's bad! You do, however, have the power to improve that mood, and humor is still the quickest and healthiest way to do it. "Humor is all around, and it will come out of any situation," says Allen Klein, who at one time worked with Captain Kangaroo and Jackie Gleason. Read more

Insight and Wisdom Through Loss

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the most important things in life? How can we experience them deeply, and how do we learn from them? Isabel Allende is a master of these questions, having wrestled with profound losses in her life as well as experiencing great love, pain and joy. Read more

Traveling Light For the Good Life

By: Richard Leider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you living the good life? asks Richard Leider. Are you living with people you love, in the place that's right, doing good work, with a sense of purpose? Here is a challenge to reconsider the structure of your entire life, to choose for yourself what is needed to "repack" it for greater purpose and satisfaction. Read more

Voices of the Gothic Sub-Culture

By: Sorrel Smith, Justin "Sully" Meyer, Melanie Gar...

Narrated by: Joan Marler

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The "fin-de-siecle" phenomenon that arises at the end of each century is expressing itself in the "Gothic" sub-culture. Teenagers dress in black or in torn lace, wearing ghoulish make-up or face paint, as reminders of death and decline. Rather than making them morbid or depressed, however, they say this helps them live more joyfully and creatively. Read more

Listening to Prozac - Abridged

By: Peter D. Kramer

Narrated by: Peter D. Kramer

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE END OF PERSONALITY?

Since it was introduce in 1987, the antidepressant Prozac has been prescribed to nearly five million Americans. But what is Prozac? Reported to turn shy people into social butterflies and to improve work performance, memory, even dexterity, Prozac has changed millions of troubled lives -- but not without raising... Read more

The Survival Of Consciousness

By: Stanislav Grof & Willis Harman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compelling dialogue with two researchers who have devoted their lives to exploring the questions related to survival of consciousness after death and experiences of non-ordinary consciousness. Read more

Positive Plus - Abridged

By: Joyce Brothers

Narrated by: Joyce Brothers

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Turn negative traits like nagging, perfectionism, and compulsive behavior into positives with this simple guide from renowned psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers. For decades Dr. Brothers was a sage, down-to-earth voice of reason to the millions who read her books and newspaper and magazine columns and heeded her advice on television and radio.... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Perhaps no one in this generation has had a more profound influence upon our intellectual and spiritual lives than Dr. M. Scott Peck. His first book, The Road Less Traveled, published over fifteen years ago, continues to reach an ever-growing audience, with sales of more than five million copies and translation into more than twenty languages.... Read more

Feeling Alive and "In the Flow"

By: Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We experience flow when we are totally absorbed in a challenging activity for its own sake, and not for the sake of the results. The flow state is accessible to everyone, can occur at any level of skill, and is in fact necessary for real enjoyment of life beyond simple pleasure-seeking. Read more

A Psychology of Spiritual Optimism

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Human beings don't come compartmentalized--and human healing doesn't have to either. Building bridges between medicine, psychology and spirituality is the theme of this heart-centered discussion with a medical psychologist and pioneer of psychoneuroimmunology. Read more

The Mythic Power of Film

By: Geoffrey Hill

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

After listening to this exploration of the mythological significance of films, you will never watch movies with the same eyes again. Psychotherapist Geoffrey Hill describes cinema as an art form revealing the fears and desires, symbols and issues of contemporary times. Read more

Taming Your Inner Critic

By: Hal Stone, Ph.D. & Sidra Stone

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inner Critic is one of the inner selves that Hal and Sidra Stone have identified through decades of Voice Dialogue therapy; and it can be a very destructive voice unless we learn how to identify and deal with it. Here they tell us the differences between men and women in this regard; how to recognize and understand the Inner Critic; and most... Read more

Creativity, Chaos and the Madwoman

By: Linda Leonard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Madwoman is a paradoxical archetype whose manifestations range from insanity and fury to passion, ecstasy and creative chaos. In some form or other, she is part of the inner chorus in every personality, in both men and women. Linda Leonard has a personal acquaintance with the Madwoman both through her professional therapy practice and her... Read more

It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You - Abridged

By: Janet Greeson

Narrated by: Janet Greeson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Overcome Hidden Food Addictions, Take Charge of Your Body, Your Emotions, Your Life

Here's hope and help for food addicts. Developed by Janet Greeson, a nationally renowned pioneer in the development of addiction treatment programs, this day-by-day self-help program treats the physical, emotional and spiritual causes of food addiction.
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Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Becoming An Elder

By: Mark Gerzon

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerzon describes the midlife process as a quest, as discovering the deep questions that are arising within. He encourages older people to share their stories with the young, as we all learn to dispel the negative and false belief that growing older means not growing. He’s the author of Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis Into a Quest. Read more

Through Time Into Healing - Abridged

By: Brian L. Weiss

Narrated by: Brian L. Weiss

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The book that sheds new light on reincarnation and the extraordinary healing potential of past life and hypnotic regression therapy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters.

Brian Weiss made headlines with his groundbreaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive... Read more

The Gift of the Feminine

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Joan Marler

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Our deepest lessons are found in the truths of our apparent enemies, by "looking at the person who harms you, and seeing how they are like you." This is the message of Brenda Peterson, speaking from her own family and daily life experiences, on topics from leaky roofs to the abortion issue. Read more

Sanity Through Ecopsychology

By: Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Roszak calls for "a new psychology that sees us as part of an evolving universe." This requires learning from more natural and ancient modes of integrating the person and habitat, and developing a respect for primal mental processes such as those of children. "Let's keep the kids as sane as they were born," he says. Read more

Revisioning Psychotherapy

By: James Hillman & Michael Ventura

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two creative minds have joined to issue a broadside challenge to a century-old tradition focused on individual psychological health. By its narrow focus on personal history and relationships, they charge, psychotherapy ignores the political and economic contexts in which the individual exists. Read more

The Sound of Healing

By: Sharry Edwards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable discussion with a woman who hears "signature sounds" emitted from other people's bodies--it's "the sound missing from their voice," she says. These sounds, when sung back to them, seem to have miraculous, documented healing powers in a multitude of "hopeless" medical situations. Read more

Shamanism For Our Time

By: Ruth-Inge Heinze

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Shamanism has survived through human history because it still fulfills needs which are otherwise not met. In whatever environment shamans work, they shift the attention of their clients into the interconnectedness so necessary, especially in urban societies. Read more

Alchemy and Archetypes

By: Carol Pearson

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We all possess the archetypes necessary for the hero’s journey. Though one or two may be predominant in our lives, we can call forth and awaken these inner guides as needed on our quest. In this provocative interview, Carol Pearson reveals how these archetypes can aid our experience of soul initiation. Her message is one of gentleness and... Read more