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Title: The Soul of Shame

Subtitle: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves

Author: Curt Thompson

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-17

Publisher: Two Words Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

The Gospel Coalition Top Books of 2015 in Faith and Work

Hearts & Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Applied Theology, Basic Christian Living, Whole Life Discipleship

We're all infected with a spiritual disease. Its name is shame. Whether we realize it or not, shame affects every aspect of our personal lives and vocational endeavors. It seeks to destroy our identity in Christ, replacing it with a damaged version of ourselves that results in unhealed pain and brokenness. But God is telling a different story for your life.

Psychiatrist Curt Thompson unpacks the soul of shame, revealing its ubiquitous nature and neurobiological roots. He also provides the theological and practical tools necessary to dismantle shame, based on years of researching its damaging effects and counseling people to overcome those wounds. Thompson's expertise and compassion will help you identify your own pains and struggles and find freedom from the lifelong negative messages that bind you. Rewrite the story of your life and embrace healing and wholeness as you discover and defeat shame's insidious agenda.

Members Reviews:

Interesting...

This is very good for anyone who is feeling deep shame or having trouble getting through this feeling. It explains everything you want to know about shame. Some are obvious and then some are not so obvious. This could be extremely helpful to a lot of people. Well written and narrated. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

Wonderful & Annoying

I will say this is a 5 star in defining, revealing what shame is and what to do about it.

I dont like the doctrinal push on his view of God and Christ. I thought no as a psychiatrist he should be mindful that not everyone is a Catholic or a Christian or a believer in God. He should have stayed in the psychological wisdom the Bible does provide.. which he does 90% of the time - but as readers we become your patient or student. This though your book you enforce God, the Trinity and that will be disturbing to many listeners.

However as I bypass those issues and some of the rambling tangents ... I really do think this book is going to help me.

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Title: How to Think

Subtitle: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

Author: Alan Jacobs

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 58 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.

As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us - political, social, religious - Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided but because the people involved simply aren't thinking.

Most of us don't want to think, Jacobs writes. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias.

In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking - forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, "alternative facts", and information overload - and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It's impossible to "think for yourself".)

Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C. S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.

Critic Reviews:

"Witty, engaging, and ultimately hopeful, Jacobs's guide is sorely needed in a society where partisanship too often trumps the pursuit of knowledge." (

Publishers Weekly)

"Just when it feels like we've all lost our minds, here comes Alan Jacobs's

How to Think, a book infused with the thoughtfulness, generosity, and humor of a lifelong teacher. Do what I did: Sign off social media, find a cozy spot to read, and get your mind back again. A mindful book for our mindless times." (Austin Kleon, best-selling author of

Steal Like an Artist

)

"I disagree passionately with Alan Jacobs about a number of very important things, but this indispensable book shows me how to take him by the hand while we argue, rather than the throat. In troublingly stupid times, it offers a toolbox for the restoration of nuance, self-knowledge and cognitive generosity." (Francis Spufford, author of

Golden Hill and

Unapologetic)

Members Reviews:

How to think is as much art as science

Alan Jacobs is one of my favorite essayists. He was a professor at Wheaton when I was there (although I never had him). He is now a professor at Baylor. I have read a number of his books, from a biography on CS Lewis, to several collections of essays, to a history of the Book of Common Prayer, my favorite book on reading, a cultural history of the concept of Original Sin, and now How to Think.

I wasnt completely sure what I was getting into when I picked this up yesterday morning (it released yesterday).

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Title: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Subtitle: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Author: Bandy X. Lee - editor M.D.

Narrator: Nanette Gartrell, P. J. Ochlan, Luba Kessler, Hillary Huber, Thomas Singer, Betty P. Teng, Alex Hyde-White, Bandy X. Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-17

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 385 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

This program is read by Alex Hyde-White, William Dufris, Hillary Huber, Nanette Gartrell, Leonard L. Glass, Luba Kessler, Bandy X. Lee, Elizabeth Mika, P. J. Ochlan, Jennifer Contarino Panning, Thomas Singer, Rosemary Sword, Michael J. Tansey, Betty P. Teng, and Steve Wruble.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump describes the consensus view held by two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.

This is not normal.

Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule", which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.

In The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump's case, their moral and civic "duty to warn" America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump's symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.

Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump's impulsivity in terms of "unbridled and extreme present hedonism." Craig Malkin speaks about pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the "malignant normality" that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.

His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.

It's not all in our heads. It's in his.

Expertly compiled by author and editor Bandy X. Lee, this insightful audiobook is mental fuel for the concerned, contemplative listener.

Chapters written by Noam Chomsky, Jennifer Contarino Panning, Howard H. Covitz, Lance Dodes, William J. Doherty, Edwin B. Fisher, Henry J. Friedman, John D. Gartner, Nanette Gartrell, James Gilligan, Leonard L. Glass, James A. Herb, Judith Lewis Herman, Diane Jhueck, Luba Kessler, Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Craig Malkin, Elizabeth Mika, Dee Mosbacher, David M. Reiss, Tony Schwartz, Gail Sheehy, Thomas Singer, Rosemary Sword, Michael J. Tansey, Betty P.

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Title: Sacred Knowledge

Subtitle: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

Author: William Richards

Narrator: River Kanoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-17

Publisher: Wetware Media

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly three decades of legal research with volunteers, William A. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential to assuage suffering and constructively affect the quality of human life.

Richards's analysis contributes to social and political debates over the responsible integration of psychedelic substances into modern society. His book serves as an invaluable resource for listeners who, whether spontaneously or with the facilitation of psychedelics, have encountered meaningful, inspiring, or even disturbing states of consciousness and seek clarity about their experiences. Testing the limits of language and conceptual frameworks, Richards makes the most of experiential phenomena that stretch our conception of reality, advancing new frontiers in the study of belief, spiritual awakening, psychiatric treatment, and social well-being. His findings enrich humanities and scientific scholarship, expanding work in philosophy, anthropology, theology, and religious studies and bringing depth to research in mental health, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology.

Members Reviews:

Groundbreaking Wisdom: A Must Read

This authoritative book by renowned expert, Dr. Bill Richards, is everything we could hope for from the field's preeminent scholar and researcher. Dr. Richards writes with clarity and thorough expertise on topics of consciousness studies, mystical experiences, psychedelic research and psychology. This is a book which meets the needs of the general public, as well as those of mental health and medical professionals. Remarkably, this book integrates methods of empirical clinical research with methods of spiritual inquiry, showing their common roots in the human search for meaning. We require this outstanding book as an essential reading for the university post-graduate training program in psychedelic therapy at CIIS in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Richards is a sage and trail-blazer in the tradition of the ancient mystics. Scholars and sages of his singular philosophical lineage are other luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Huston Smith, Paul Tillich, Karl Jaspers, and Abraham Maslow.

The author inspires us with a recognition that we all have sacred knowledge within us and that it is available to us in many varieties and modes. He writes informed and descriptive examples of this from mythology, clinical cases, research, and spiritual texts from many cultures. Dr. Richards reminds us that all we need do is to be curious, open and embrace our awe and wonder before the majesty of the sacred. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking their own sacred knowledge of the truth of their connection to all that is. The most inspired and inspiring book on these crucial topics of finding meaning in our contemporary life.

Dr. Richards has written what will become a classic text in the areas of religious and mystical experiences, psychedelic research, and transformations of consciousness. A must read.

(Reviewed by Dr. Janis Phelps)

Investigation of human consciousness and being

Truly exceptional insights into human consciousness and being with a wise vision for our collective evolution!

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Title: Mental Health, Inc.

Subtitle: How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens

Author: Art Levine

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Prizewinning investigative journalist Art Levine offers a no-holds-barred and crucial call to action for America's broken mental health system.

The mental health system in America is hardly a front-burner issue, despite lip service about reform after a tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in "shambles". By some measures, about 20 percent of Americans have some sort of mental health condition, including the most vulnerable among us - veterans, children, the elderly, prisoners, and the homeless. With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out-of-control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans.

Levine provides narrative portraits of victims and people who won unexpected victories against their illnesses by getting smart, personalized help, as well as snapshots of corrupt Big Pharma executives and researchers who created fraudulent marketing schemes. Levine also tells the dramatic David vs. Goliath stories of a few brave reformers, including Harvard-trained psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, who has acted as a whistle-blower in numerous cases, leading to major federal and state settlements, as well as spotlighting pioneering clinicians challenging outmoded, drug-and-sedate practices that leave 90 percent of people with serious mental illness too disabled to work.

By taking a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices as well as pointing toward solutions for creating a system for effective, proven, and compassionate care, Art Levine's essential Mental Health, Inc. is a call to action for politicians and citizens alike.

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Title: The Mind of God

Subtitle: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul

Author: Dr. Jay Lombard

Narrator: David Acord

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of Deepak Chopra, Rudy Tanzi, and Andrew Newberg. A renowned behavioral neurologist provides insights to some of the most curious spiritual questions we all face.

Is there a God?

It's a question billions of people have asked since the dawn of time. You would think by now we'd have a satisfactory, universal answer. No such luck...or maybe we do and we just need to look in the right place. For Dr. Jay Lombard that place is the brain, and more importantly the mind, that center of awareness and consciousness that creates reality.

In The Mind of God, Dr. Lombard employs case studies from his own behavioral neurology practice to explore the spiritual conundrums that we all ask ourselves: What is the nature of God? Does my life have purpose? What's the meaning of our existence? Are we free? What happens to us when we die?

For Lombard, these metaphysical questions are a jumping-off point for exploring the brain in search of the seat of the soul. It is neuroscience, the author contends, and how we and our brains interpret what's going on around us that can lead us to a deeper and more fulfilling faith.

Mixing his personal experiences in the medical field (including compelling cases such as the male patient who really thought he was pregnant and a woman who literally scared herself to death) along with his own visionary insight into spiritual experience, Lombard has much to tell us about the nature and power of belief - and what we can do to focus our beliefs in a positive direction. If you want to find more meaning in your life or are searching for a deeper understanding of why we believe what we believe, then this book can lead to an exciting transformation in the way you see and understand the world around you. With cutting-edge research and provocative case studies, renowned behavioral neurologist provides insights to some of the most curious spiritual questions of mortality.

Members Reviews:

I understand Dr.Lombard's mind after the book but I do not feel closer to god or the mind of god

A promise to answer some fundamental spiritual questions was not delivered.The questions were raised and researched historically but the platitudes barely enriched. I was very disappointed but I did enjoy the integration of neurology and spirituality at times.

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Title: Fulfilled

Subtitle: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life

Author: Anna Yusim, Eben Alexander - foreword

Narrator: Anna Yusim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Are you living the life you thought you always wanted but feel that something is still missing? Do you think you should be happier than you are, considering all that you have? Have you achieved your professional or personal goals but still feel racked with insecurities, anxiety, or depression...and can't figure out why?

Psychiatrist Anna Yusim knows just how you feel. Not only has she struggled with these feelings herself, but she has also worked with patients who have expressed the same bewildering concern: They have everything they've always wanted, and yet deep down they don't feel fulfilled.

Determined to help herself and her patients, Dr. Yusim spent more than 15 years studying and conducting research and came to a startling conclusion: this lingering feeling of dissatisfaction coincides with spiritual neglect. Once she helped her patients address their spiritual and psychological needs, she saw radical improvements in their happiness levels and quality of life.

Now science is catching up with her innovative approach to therapy as groundbreaking medical research and studies substantiate what Dr. Yusim and many others have suspected for years: Spirituality is a powerful path to healing. Drawing from the best in Western medicine as well as teachings from Kabbalah, Buddhism, and shamanistic traditions, Dr. Yusim has developed a program that marries empirical science and spirituality to help you:

Filled with exercises, guided meditations, fascinating scientific research, and inspiring success stories, Fulfilled integrates the best of Western medicine with universal spiritual principles to help you find more meaning, more joy, and more fulfillment in your life.

Critic Reviews:

"

Fulfilled brings the mental health field's focus on self-understanding a much needed deeper looking into the human psyche: the dimensions of the spirit and the soul. Dr. Anna Yusim, a dear friend and student, provides invaluable insights, tools and exercises to help us heal and grow by accessing the spiritual dimensions of ourselves and the world." (Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, PhD, associate director, Manhattan Jewish Experience)

"Dr. Yusim has given therapists and clients wonderful spiritual tools to bring head and heart together as we journey within psychotherapy and outside the consulting room. She shows how intuition, intellect and innocence can take us to higher goals. Therapists can work on themselves. Clients can share what they discover in this book with their therapists. In these times of stress and disconnection, we need the spiritual dimension to go reunite with our authentic selves." (Richard P. Brown, MD, associate clinical professor in psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)

"If you want to understand how the science of spirituality can help you transform and heal, this is an important book to read." (Deepak Chopra, author of

You Are the Universe)

Members Reviews:

Keep a notebook handy!

Tons of insight and inspiration! I will listen to this one over and over. Keep a journal or notebook handy, as you will want to jot down notes as you receive inspirations and later practice!

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Title: Selfie

Subtitle: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

Author: Will Storr

Narrator: Jack Hawkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

We live in the age of the individual.

We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture's image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media. We're told that to be this person, you just have to follow your dreams, that our potential is limitless, that we are the source of our own success.

But this model of the perfect self can be extremely dangerous. People are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. Unprecedented social pressure is leading to increases in depression and suicide. Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell?

To answer these questions, Selfie takes us from the shores of Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, to the self-esteem evangelists of 1980s California, the rise of narcissism and the selfie generation, and right up to the era of hyperindividualistic neoliberalism in which we live now.

It tells the extraordinary story of the person we all know so intimately - our self.

Exclusive to the audiobook, Selfie includes a unique 15-minute interview with the author, Will Storr, and reader, Jack Hawkins.

Critic Reviews:

"Fascinating." (The Times)

"Thoughtful and engaging." (Guardian)

"Brilliant." (Evening Standard)

"Electrifying." (Financial Times)

"Approaching genius." (Sunday Times)

Members Reviews:

Brilliant

This is one of the best audiobooks I have listened to - and I've listened to a lot! A fantastic combination of sociology, psychology and history - with a bit of politics and economics thrown in. This is the first time I've listened to a book and found it resonating with me, personally ("but that's ME") in places.

A few bonuses - his concise dissections of the financial crisis and the Brexit / Trump phenomenons are pithy and eminently quotable. Also Jack Hawkins reading - and his novel interview with Storr right at the end - are both fabulous.

Oh, and my score was 7 out of 40. Listen to the book, and you'll know what I mean.

A book for for our Time

Thought provoking, revealing and enjoyable. We are not who we think we are, we are not even what others think we are - We are what we think others think we are - This and the destruction of the scientific base for the Rogerian philosophy of Total Positive Regard are significant revelations. Well argued, compelling story telling at its best and isn't that what we have relied upon to form our opinions through the ages. Absolutely worth the read.

A calming exciting truth.

A refreshing eye-opener with some calming truths. Refreshing to hear solidly researched material in our world of spin and nonsense. l loved it. Thank you.

So so good

Couldn't recommend this book more - favourite non fiction I've ever read! And the voice over provides really entertaining voices for different people who are interviewed. Really enjoyed and learnt a lot

Abandon hope all ye who download here

I have no idea why, but at some point in the production of this audiobook, an executive decision was made to have the narrator dramatically perform the voices in the text.

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Title: Play

Subtitle: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

Author: Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan

Narrator: Michael Hinton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives.

We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless, all-consuming, and fun. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. We are designed by nature to flourish through play. Particularly in tough times, we need to play more than ever, as it's the very means by which we prepare for the unexpected, search out new solutions, and remain optimistic.

A fascinating blend of cutting-edge neuroscience, biology, psychology, social science, and inspiring human stories of the transformative power of play, this book proves why play just might be the most important work we can ever do.

Critic Reviews:

"Sprinkled with anecdotes demonstrating the play habits of subjects as diverse as polar bears and corporate CEOs, Brown and co-writer Vaughan present a compelling case for promoting play at every age." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Message and content great, professional reader too serious for a book called Play!

Publishers and authors should really pay A lot more attention to the voice quality of the professional readers they use. This reader almost killed the whole book for me. I had to speed it up just to tolerate it. How can you read a book on play with such a fake-y and rigid sounding delivery? Please, next time find a regular, relaxed person with an ability to read a book in a fun, conversational way. Thanks for listening!

Great Read!

Loved it! Brings so much understanding to what it is, we as adults need in our lives!!

Amazing book

this book is based on how everybody should play and this book has taught me so much I loved it

Didn't make it past the first chapter

I purchased this because Brene brown recommended in one of her books. I could not get past how monotone the readers voice sounded. First bad experience with audible. Luckily I was able to return. I think I may just purchase it in paperback form.

Scholarly but "playful" approach to the subject of Play.

I really enjoyed this audio book! The vastness of the subject matter amazed me. Not just about the importance of play for children, the book lays why play is important, no necessary, for adults too. I will listen again sometime soon but I will be first investigating more play pursuits for myself. I highly recommend this book.

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Title: Islands of Genius

Author: Stephen ` Smith

Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, Stephen Smith

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

How can a 20-year-old man who is blind, autistic and still believes in Santa Claus play the most sophisticated improvisational jazz piano? How can a child who appears withdrawn and mentally disabled gaze at a building for only a minute then draw an exact reproduction on paper? Producer Stephen Smith explores the mysterious powers of savants people with profound mental disabilities who develop an island of genius in music, mathematics or art. Research on Savant Syndrome is producing new insights on how the human brain works, and how personal intelligence can outwit the IQ test.

The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Islands of Genius was produced with support from the National Science Foundation. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries:

Educating Emily Produced by: Jean Snedegar

Thinking About Thinking Parts 1 and 2 Produced by: Adi Gevins

Touchstones of Reality Produced by: Jean Snedegar

Soundprint Executive Producer: Moira Rankin

Technical Director: Anna Maria de Freitas

Science Editor: Ann Finkbeiner

Audio Engineer: Robin Wise

Production Assistant: Francesca Raimond