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Title: Unbroken Brain

Subtitle: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Author: Maia Szalavitz

Narrator: Marisa Vitali

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 406 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to or recovering from addiction, whether it's alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the Internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th-century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and equally outdated treatment.

Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality", Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum - and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture, and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery - and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all.

Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research, Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction.

Members Reviews:

Not what I expected

I bought this book because I wanted to learn more about addiction as a learning disorder. There wasn't much development of this idea to explain more about why it is a learning disorder or how thinking of it that way would change our understanding of it. Instead, the author just asserted it as a basis for a lengthy discussion of the problems with current drug policies and the need for reform. I'm sympathetic to her viewpoint but was disappointed because I have heard these arguments before.

An incredible new way of understanding addiction

If you or a loved one struggles or has struggled with addiction you owe it to yourself to read this book. The story is incredible but the research and journalism on display are staggering in their completeness and depth of thought. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.

Reconsidering all I thought I knew

I was raised by a raging alcoholic father and a "wire monkey" mother. I've been involved in three interventions. I went to ACA meetings on a weekly basis for ten years. I thought I knew a lot about addiction. I did not.

Disappointing

What would have made Unbroken Brain better?

I really like the concept of this book, but there are so many factual errors that I cannot continue to listen to it. I am a behavioral psychologist, and someone in my field should have been asked to proofread this book for accuracy. The author has an interesting idea, but she lacks a clear understanding of the research and concepts in the field of psychology. It is unfortunate that so much myth and misinformation made its way into publication.

PLEASE read this book!

Extremely educational for people who have little understanding of addiction or that world. This book totally changed my view on so many ideas, and gave me plausible, effective solutions to help my loved ones. I will be reading it again and owning a hard copy.

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Title: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Subtitle: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Author: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 484 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive new relationships so you can build a better life.

Critic Reviews:

"Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, gives practical insight into a prevalent problem.... The book is impeccably clear.... This utter lack of confusion makes the book quite soothing, despite the heavy subject." (

Foreword Magazine)

Members Reviews:

Astonishing information.

It seem that my whole life I was searching for the information in this book. I came upon this book by strange chance, and I'm so pleased to have found it. Thank you audible for having us in your library this book has shown me so much about myself and my family structure. I absolutely recommend it, not only to those who feel that they might have emotionally immature parents, but also for those people who feel that their own partner might be suffering from emotionally immature parents. Performance only gets 3 stars because the narrator seemed to inconsistently flip-flop between the "character voice" to a regular reading voice when it came to the case studies, or examples from clients.

Emotional maturity is a topic worthy of study

If you could sum up Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents in three words, what would they be?

Helpful and informative

What did you like best about this story?

I like that the text was able to both discuss the effect of a lack of emotional maturity of parents on their grown children as well as discussing emotional maturity in general. I didn't feel that I was getting only a look at "this is what happened to these adults" but rather a continuum of the effects of emotional immaturity in all stages, including the ability to reflect on my own life and emotional maturity as a parent and how it may affect my children.

What does Marguerite Gavin bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

The narration was well delivered and kept me interested. I'm a slow reader, and so I expect it would have taken me much longer to get through a print version, but Ms. Gavin kept the text moving along and always kept me interested.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Not based on the book

Any additional comments?

All in all, I was very pleased with the book as a study of emotional maturity at all levels. It was very helpful and gave me a good understanding of the subject, and made me want to learn more, not to mention find ways to mature emotionally. It also did help to a great degree regarding digging into the past and finding the roots of why we act the way we do.

Excellent

Concise, honorable, nonjudgmental presentation of emotional immaturity. Easy to identify with descriptions of how that effects relationships.

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Title: Grit

Subtitle: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Author: Angela Duckworth

Narrator: Angela Duckworth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10810 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit".

Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments.

Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not genius but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own "character lab" and set out to test her theory.

Here, she takes listeners into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers - from J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll.

Winningly personal, insightful, and even life changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down and how that - not talent or luck - makes all the difference.

Critic Reviews:

"Psychologist Angela Duckworth's winning performance is a nice blend of confidence in her scientific findings and humility about her personal and professional journey. Her accessible writing and speaking charm help her research on character reveal much about why people with the same abilities get vastly different results." (

AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

The Soul of The Super Achievers

I have been studying ways to improve myself and my kids for almost a decade. I've read and listened to many books that talked about grit. And I searched many times for "Angela Duckworth and grit". Well, what a beautiful surprise to find this excellent book and to listen to it twice already, in the month of its release. Angela Duckworth is the main scientist that studies GRIT. And in this book she delivers all her knowledge in a very profound yet comprehensive way.

But, instead of writing only about grit and her researches, she goes beyond and talks about play, deliberate practice, flow and many other important topics of the psychology of success.

I will try to highlight the message, but I recommend you to read the book at least once.

Grit is a consistency of effort and practice. A gritty person have the attitude of never giving up, have an obsession and go for it, try to be the best in the world and always search for ways to improve; A gritty person has passion and perseverance.

Having grit is better than having talent (but better to have both).

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Title: Love's Executioner

Author: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrator: C.M. Carlson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-16

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 285 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist. Not since Freud has an author done so much to clarify what goes on between a psychotherapist and a patient.

The audio version of the book includes an exclusive interview with Dr. Yalom.

Members Reviews:

You Cant Make This Stuff Up

The saying, You cant make this stuff up lives in the cases Irvin D. Yalom shares with us. Considering that not much action happens in most of the stories, each has its own way of reaching out and touching you, deeply. Some stories dont just touch, they grab and hold on. We all, each of us, struggle. In excellent narrative form, Yalom consistently weaves this thread throughout and between the stories. This connected commiseration binds the reader/listener to the perspectives of both the therapist and his patients, while it also keeps the reader/listener in full appreciation of the art of narrative, simply for the sake of story, which in this collection happens to be true and, as such, more intriguing.

Please note, I did not pay attention to the narrators by line before engaging in the listen I know, shame on me. The certainty that the voice in my ear was author Irvin D. Yalom remained fully in tact until the writing of this review. Narrator C.M. Carlson speaks the trials in this book with the ease and connectedness of a person who has known firsthand knowledge of and experience with each patient. Carlson delivers a quintessential voiceover experience one that is free of a grating voice; over dramatization; insufficient pitch or enunciation; poor or non-existent character distinction; and most difficult of all (in my humble opinion), detectible gaps between story and narrator. I dropped a star because in several areas, extraneous background noise injects itself into the production. Had the noise been more strategically placed, it would have worked well as chapter markers, which was exactly what I thought it was at first. The noise occurs more frequently in the first few stories than the latter. It took me a while to figure out that the rather jilting interruptions were jet engines. This is another prime example of why Audible should add an Editing or Production rating category. Since there is none, and because the likelihood that Carlson was aware of his proximity to an airport and the correlating noise level, Im knocking off what could have been a perfect narration score.

Required reading for any therapist

I didn't know this is what I have been looking for until I read it. A must read for therapists, or potential therapist, gives a colorful representation of what it is like to work with clients.

Espectacular read

Personal, incisive, honest and exposing. I enjoyed every single story and the connections that each patient had with my own fears, shame, anger and disappointments. Yalom's candid observations about himself were so meaningful as well.

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Title: The 5 Human Types, Volume 6

Subtitle: Types That Should and Should Not Marry Each Other

Author: Elsie Benedict

Narrator: Max Bollinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-16

Publisher: Interactive Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Every individual owes it to himself to find the right work and the right mate, because these are fundamental needs of every human being. Lacking them, life is a failure; possessing but one of them, life is half a failure. To obtain and apply the very fullest knowledge toward the attainment of these two great requisites should be the aim of every person.

Only those men and women whose natures automatically encourage each other in the doing of the things each likes to do, in the way each likes to do them, can be happy together.

In this volume you will discover how each type behaves in love relationships and how to find the best match for yourself, including which type to marry and which type not to marry.

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Title: The 5 Human Types

Subtitle: How to Read People Using the Science of Human Analysis (Complete Volumes 1-7)

Author: Elsie Benedict

Narrator: Max Bollinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Interactive Media

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Human analysis differs from every other system of character analysis in that it classifies man into five types according to his biological evolution. No person achieves success or happiness when compelled to do what he naturally dislikes to do, since likes and dislikes stay with him to the grave.

One of the biggest modern problems is that of helping men and women to discover and to capitalize on their inborn traits. Each of the five types is discussed in detail, with specific and detailed examples. Insight into which types work well together as well as detailed analysis of which types should and should not marry; how to find your perfect job and select your business and social partners; and many more exciting topics are covered in this guide.

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Title: The 5 Human Types, Volume 7

Subtitle: Vocations for Each Type

Author: Elsie Benedict

Narrator: Max Bollinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Interactive Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Every individual should find a vocation furnishing one of the three kinds of work for which he has the greatest ability. Then he should go into the particular branch of that vocation which is best adapted to his personality, training, education, environment and experience.

To be a success, you must produce something out of the ordinary for the world. To know what this is, classify the kinds of activities you take to naturally. You can be a star in some line that calls for those activities.

You will never succeed in any calling which demands the opposite kinds of activities or reactions.

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Title: The 5 Human Types, Volume 5

Subtitle: The Thinker; the Hungry Philosopher

Author: Elsie Benedict

Narrator: Max Bollinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Interactive Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

The most essential thing in the world to any individual is to understand himself. The next is to understand the other fellow. From this course you are going to learn which of the five types you are and how to get the best out of it.

The cerebral type, or the thinker, is discussed in this volume as well as all key principles of human analysis.

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Title: A Mind of Your Own

Subtitle: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives

Author: Kristin Loberg, Kelly Brogan M.D.

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 364 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Depression is not a disease. It is a symptom.

Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with one in four women starting her day with medication. These drugs have steadily become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, and panic attacks to insomnia, PMS, and stress. But the truth is, what women really need can't be found at a pharmacy.

According to Dr. Kelly Brogan, antidepressants not only overpromise and underdeliver, but their use may permanently disable the body's self-healing potential. We need a new paradigm: The best way to heal the mind is to heal the whole body.

In this groundbreaking science-based and holistic approach, Dr. Brogan shatters the mythology conventional medicine has built around the causes and treatment of depression. Based on her expert interpretation of published medical findings combined with years of experience from her clinical practice, Dr. Brogan illuminates the true cause of depression: It is not simply a chemical imbalance but a lifestyle crisis that demands a reset. It is a signal that the interconnected systems in the body are out of balance - from blood sugar to gut health to thyroid function - and inflammation is at the root.

A Mind of Your Own offers an achievable, step-by-step 30-day action plan - including powerful dietary interventions, targeted nutrient support, detoxification, sleep, and stress reframing techniques - women can use to heal their bodies, alleviate inflammation, and feel like themselves again without a single prescription.

Bold, brave, and revolutionary, A Mind of Your Own takes listeners on a journey of self-empowerment for radical transformation that goes far beyond symptom relief.

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Members Reviews:

Excellent material

If this is the first time you have heard the material or it's a reminder, this book is right on the mark. As a functional nutritionist I know when I stray from what works for me and try to justify it saying it's ok, I should be able to handle it, it just doesn't work. I've had "depression" all my life searching for ways to "handle" it from meds to counseling to more permanent solutions and nothing is more powerful than what is suggested in this book.

Critical and Necessary Read

I found the information presented here to be brave. We need more specialists in the field of health to come forth with their experiences and knowledge of Big Pharma and the food industries incessant corruption that is poisoning us from every direction. We can't simply stand aside any longer and just allow it. Voices must be heard in whatever capacity possible. If you are not comfortable with leading edge information you may find this book to be more in line with conspiracy but if you have intuition and ability to think for your self you will know the truth when it rings.

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Title: The Highly Sensitive Child

Subtitle: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them

Author: Elaine Aron

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of high sensitivity and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Now, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children.

Rooted in Aron's years of experience as a psychotherapist and her original research on child temperament, The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling they can become unusually shy or timid or begin acting out.

In this pioneering work, parents will find helpful self-tests and case studies to help them understand their HSC along with thorough advice on parenting a highly sensitive child. With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, The Highly Sensitive Child delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives.

Critic Reviews:

"Aron offers helpful advice that will assist both nonsensitive and highly sensitive parents through all stages of their child's development from infancy to adolescence." (

Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Very helpful

At 65 I am only now learning about Highly Sensitive Persons despite having a sensitive sister and others in the family with that temperament, but better late than never. I learned a lot.

HSP required reading!

No matter the age at which u discover u r HSP, this book will take u back to childhood and validate your experience. Required reading for all HSPs, parents and friends and teachers of HSPs. Thank goodness for Elaine Aron!

So helpful with our little HSC!

so many helpful recommendations and insights. this book is really helping us to better support our HSC. We are going to use this like a textbook and keep referring back to remember all the helpful hints.

more labels for kids to deal with

What would have made The Highly Sensitive Child better?

the subject matter. Almost every child can be made to fit into some category of dysfunction.

amazing

this book is well worth every second. i can't wait to implement some of the wonderful tactics in here with my wonderful highly sensitive child.