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    The Choice

    by Edith Eger ...
    Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author.'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leaves you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateEdith Eger was a gymnast and ballerina when she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Civilization and Its Discontents

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 4 min

    First published in 1930, Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the most influential works of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud. Focusing on the tension between the primitive drives of the individual and the demands of civilization for order and conformity, Freud draws upon his psychoanalytic theories to explain the fundamental structures, conflicts, and consequences of society. Written in ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Cure for Darkness

    The story of depression and how we treat it

    by Alex Riley ...
    Narrated by Alex Riley ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a range of mental disorders requiring different treatments? And is there a way of curing such a complex, and diverse, condition?A sufferer of depression himself, science writer Alex Riley has spent years thinking about these issues as he was prescribed ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Premonitions Bureau

    A Sunday Times bestseller

    by Sam Knight ...
    Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the station.What if you could share your vision, and stop that train? Could these ... Read more

    $54.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fixing Hell

    An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib

    by Colonel Larry C. James, (Ret.), PhD ...
    Narrated by Eric Kramer ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 47 min

    This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place there never happen again.In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts, and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story broke, and the world began to learn about the extent of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bedlam

    An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis

    by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States.When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming rate, with many patients having nowhere to go. There has never been a more important time for this ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Asperger's Children

    The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

    by Edith Sheffer ...
    Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate and devoted researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he did offer individualized care to children he deemed promising, he ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Das Unbewusste

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Narrated by Norbert Wendel ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 30 min

    Die Existenz unbewusster Prozesse ist eine der Grundannahmen Freuds, die kennzeichnend für seine Forschungen zur menschlichen Psyche waren. Mithilfe dieses Konstruktes versuchte er Phänomene des Seelischen zu verstehen und zu erklären, die anhin als nicht erklärbar galten. Freud ging einerseits davon aus, dass es psychische Vorgänge gibt, die im Wesentlichen unbewusst sind und bleiben. ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

    by Gustave Le Bon ...
    Narrated by Glen Reed ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 –1931) was a French polymath who wrote on anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work ‘The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind’, which is considered a seminal work of crowd psychology. In the book, Le Bon identifies the primary characteristics of crowd psychology as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Genetics in the Madhouse

    The Unknown History of Human Heredity

    by Theodore M. Porter ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 1 min

    In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Dreams

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Reese ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Between 1915 and 1917, Sigmund Freud delivered a series of well-received lectures at the University of Vienna on his theories of psychoanalysis. Nine of them focused on Freud's theories about dreams-what they are and what they mean. The content of these lectures are presented in Dreams. Freud covered a lot of ground in his lectures, focusing first on the general difficulties involved in studying ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Orphans of Davenport

    Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War Over Children's Intelligence

    by Marilyn Brookwood ...
    Narrated by Susie Berneis ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 25 min

    “Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents’ low intelligence and sent them to an institution for the “feebleminded” to be cared for by “moron” women. To their astonishment, under the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    In the Shadow of Fame

    A Memoir by the Daughter of Erik H. Erikson

    by Sue Erikson Bloland ...
    Narrated by Celeste Lawson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    Written by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, this is the intimate story of a daughter’s struggle to develop a sense of self in a family—and a world—in which being famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human being.Sue Erikson Bloland struggled from an early age to reconcile the public view of her father as a pioneering intellectual and quintessential father ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Psychology Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours

    Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas presented in an approachable style that demystifies an often daunting subject matter.The Psychology Book looks at the biggest names in psychology, including William James, Sigmund Freud, and Ivan Pavlov, and unpacks each psychologist's contribution to our understanding of how the mind works. With ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    by Fay Bound Alberti ...
    Narrated by Henrietta Meire ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    Despite 21st-century fears of an "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Uncounted Victim

    The Journey Of A Tortured Soul

    by Yael Eylat, Tanaka ...
    Narrated by Yael Eylat-Tanaka ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    This is the story of the other victims of German occupation in France, the story of my mother who was separated from her family and fled, and the torture that remained with her forever.These are the memoirs as told to me by my mother. I have attempted to tell her story as accurately as she presented them to me, piecing together her own written journals, along with various anecdotes that ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How to Analyze People

    The art of analyzing people and personality types through body language, social behaviour and emotional intelligence

    by Grayson Wick ...
    Narrated by Andrew Lilley ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 2 min

    Do you want to learn how to analyze people but don’t know where to begin? From the ancient Greek philosopher Galen and the four temperaments to the 1950s cardiologist Friedman and A-B personality theory the attempt to study human personality has a long and colorful history.In this short practical, analytical, guide learn the history and research behind the art of analyzing others and the ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A History of Delusions

    The Glass King, a Substitute Husband, and a Walking Corpse

    by Victoria Shepherd ...
    Narrated by Antonia Bath ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire: Why would someone wake up and claim they’re Napoleon? Or why would they believe they have been turned into a wolf and demand to be fed raw meat?For centuries, people have dismissed delusions as a problem for the shrinks to sort out in distant asylums. But delusions are more than just bizarre case studies. They tell stories of collective anxieties and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Unraveling

    Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

    by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Scienceblind

    Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

    by Andrew Shtulman ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    Humans are born to create theories about the world-unfortunately, they're usually wrong, and keep us from understanding the world as it really is. Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Die Psychologie der Erbtante

    Eine Tanthologien aus 25 Einzeldarstellungen als Beitrag zur Lösung der Unsterblichkeitsfrage

    by Erich Mühsam, Sergej Prokofjew ...
    Narrated by Gerd Wameling, Johannes Roloff ...
    series Texte der Klassischen Moderne/Musik der Gegenwart

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    Weder die Problematik noch der Begriff des Erbschleichens ist gesetzlich definiert oder gesellschaftlich klar eingeteilt. Zu diesem Thema gibt es keinen umfangreichen Katalog an gesetzlichen Vorschriften, noch eine Fülle von Literatur oder Beiträgen, die Betroffenen eine dringend erforderliche Hilfestellung geben könnten. Einzig Erich Mühsams scharfsinnige Satire aus dem Jahr 1905 bildet da eine ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder

    Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities

    by Claudia Kalb ...
    Narrated by Lisa Larsen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Suspicious Science

    The Uses of Psychology

    by Rami Gabriel ...
    Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology. Offering a systematic exploration of the ways in which psychology is used in contemporary society, it refines our understanding of the extent of the field. In addition to conceptual analysis of how science, truth, biology, mind, and meaning intersect and interact in the mind ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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  • Audiobook

    El servicio del alma

    Libro Rojo

    by Carl Gustav Jung ...
    Narrated by Oslos Molina ...
    Audiobook 1 - Libro Rojo

    Unabridged

    7 min

    El Libro Rojo de Carl Gustav Jung es un libro profético, pero no en el sentido banal de una anticipación sino como una advertencia acerca de la condición de todo ser humano, co-creador de la propia vida individual y el espíritu de su época.Jung nos enseña que sólo a partir del trabajo en los tres niveles se puede dar una transformación profunda. Actualmente se ha demostrado, además, que las ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial