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Title: A Theory of Human Motivation

Author: Abraham H. Maslow

Narrator: Troy W. Hudson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-17

Publisher: BN Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

This is the article in which Maslow first presented his hierarchy of needs. It was first printed in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation". Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow described various needs and used the terms Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization, and Self-Transcendence" to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through. Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people.

Members Reviews:

Essential for all careers

It is a must read to understand human nature. It should be read every year.

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Title: The Net and the Butterfly

Subtitle: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking

Author: Olivia Fox Cabane, Judah Pollack

Narrator: Olivia Fox Cabane, Judah Pollack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 56 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane offered a groundbreaking approach to becoming more charismatic. Now she teams up with Judah Pollack to reveal how anyone can train their brain to have more eureka insights.

The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It's beautiful and erratic, hard to catch, and highly valued as a result. If you want to capture it, you need a net. Enter the executive mode, the task-oriented network in your brain that helps you tie your shoes, run a meeting, or pitch a client. To succeed, you need both modes to work together - your inner butterfly to be active and free but your inner net to be ready to spring at the right time and create that "aha!" moment. But is there any way to trigger these insights, beyond dumb luck?

Thanks to recent neuroscience discoveries, we can now explain these breakthrough moments - and also induce them through a series of specific practices. It turns out there's a hidden pattern to all these seemingly random breakthrough ideas. From Achimedes' iconic moment in the bathtub to designer Adam Cheyer's idea for Siri, accidental breakthroughs throughout history share a common origin story. In this book you will learn to master the skills that will transform your brain into a consistent generator of insights.

Drawing on their extensive coaching and training practice with top Silicon Valley firms, Cabane and Pollack provide a step-by-step process for accessing the part of the brain that produces breakthroughs and systematically removing internal blocks. Their tactics range from simple to zany, such as:

Members Reviews:

A must read for personal development

I came across this book as I was reading an article and I'm so glad I did. The author have provided guidance not only for breakthrough thinking, but also for self confidence, self discipline. Personally Its a bonus for me to get a good understanding of brain activity which may come in handy helping my autistic son.

Beautiful in every detail, to every success story.

Every mention, every method, every ideology, everyone should be listening or reading if it suits you better. I just came out of a 3 hour audio book + work out session. Good information here.

Nothing Breakthrough in this book

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A better content

Has The Net and the Butterfly turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

What three words best describe Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack s performance?

Lacking

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Good marketing to sell the book

Any additional comments?

It is a poorly done research survey with no authentic insights into the topic.

Dissapointing especially after "The Charisma Myth"

Is there anything you would change about this book?

This book is repetition of "The Charisma Myth" and then she repeats at the end of what was said before. The book is way too long because of all repetitions.

If youve listened to books by Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack before, how does this one compare?

Much worse then I anticipated. I had high hopes after reading "The Charisma Myth".

Was The Net and the Butterfly worth the listening time?

It was very very long.

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Title: Opening Skinner's Box

Subtitle: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

Author: Lauren Slater

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Lauren Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.

Critic Reviews:

"As much urgent reassessment as historical re-creation...one of the most informative and readable recent books on psychology." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Great book, robotic reader

This is a great book for anyone who is interested in psychology, however I found the reader difficult to listen to because of her robotic tendencies. Bearable, especially because I was able to get through more of the book listening to it while driving/doing things around the house that needed to get done than I would have been if I had to sit down and read it, but not the most enjoyable experience.

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Title: How to Make Stress Work for You

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Kimberlee Bethany Bonura, PhD

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-17

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 87 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Trying to live a completely stress-free life is a zero-sum game. The true goal of your relationship with stress is to figure out how to manage it effectively, how to use it to build and support a meaningful, resilient life.

In these 18 enriching and inspiring lectures, discover how to manage and minimize the stress in your life. You'll explore the nuances of stress in ways you never really considered. These include types of stress (such as traumas, moderate stressors, and activities of daily life) and the idea that what you experience in life is really just your brain's response (using memory and reasoning) to raw input and stimuli. You'll also explore the relationship between emotion and stress, including the idea that expressing your rage could actually be making you angrier.

Dr. Bonura fills these lectures with scientifically backed techniques, behavior modifications, and exercises you can use to build a personalized toolkit to better manage your stress response. You'll learn about responsible detachment from stressful situations, the importance of ruminating right after a traumatic event, the ways physical affection helps with healing, and much more.

Rooted in scientific findings from experiments, research papers, and case studies, these lectures offer you nothing less than a bold new way of facing (and appreciating) daily life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Exceptional Delivery

This was an incredibly interesting class combining scientific studies, medical research, yoga, mindfulness and a host of other disciplines that weave together to create a fascinating discussion about stress... her delivery is impeccable and very engaging!

Narration ruins an otherwise mediocre effort

Mostly banal and trite, the narrator ruins the few nuggets with a condescending and belittling tone of voice.

The greatest book for managing stress

this book make a big change in my perspective to stress. and increase my happiness.

good research but interrupted by too much meditati

too many interruptions with mindfulness exercises. balanced and interesting perspective on a commonly written about subject

Fantastic

Really enjoyed this course. Was unsure before purchase as other courses had more time but it will prove to be very beneficial when I need guidance during times of stress. Glad I found this!

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Title: Mind-Body Philosophy

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Patrick Grim PhD

Format: Original Recording

Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-17

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 158 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

How is it that our brain creates all the subjective experiences of our lives every single day - the experiences we call reality? That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook leads an intellectually exhilarating tour through millennia of philosophy and science addressing one of life's greatest conundrums. But you won't just be a spectator as Dr. Grim engages and encourages each of us to come to our own conclusions. Is the mind part of the body? Or could the body be part of the mind? And if they are separate, what is the mechanism for interaction? This course poses these challenging questions, and more, for philosophers and scientists of all levels.

In this course you'll learn about the many ways in which philosophy, mathematics, psychology, and cutting-edge neuroscience have weighed in on the mind-body problem, all to varying degrees of success. You'll learn how computers and artificial intelligence have challenged our notions of the mind and consciousness and what scientists have learned from our dreams, hallucinations, and experiences under anesthesia. And you'll enjoy the fascinating, creative thought experiments that address knowledge, perception, and consciousness.

What is the answer to the mind-body problem? No one knows...yet. But in Mind-Body Philosophy, Dr. Grim suggests a new method of inquiry that could possibly lead to a solution: a philosophical science of consciousness combining the best that philosophy and science have to offer. But even without an answer, Dr. Grim says, this passionate pursuit of truth is a crucially important enterprise in itself.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Members Reviews:

Another Great Courses Homerun!

Any additional comments?

In this course, an old crusty philosophical problem crashes headlong into bleeding edge science. In 1,000 years from now, will we have a decisive answer to the philosophical puzzle of consciousness? I don't know. But in 100 years from now, it seems likely we'll have made exciting progress into the relevant neuroscience and hopefully AI as well. This is why I believe most contemporary academics - as Professor Grim states in the first lecture - are materialists; this is where the progress is.

Also for this reason, the course really starts for me around Lecture 15 on machine consciousness, and is in full swing by Lecture 19 on the binding problem. So if you are not impressed in the beginning, make sure to ride it out. Lecture 21 "Of Mind, Materialism, and Zombies" is probably the coolest and most intellectually stimulating single Great Courses lecture. Not to say the course as a whole is the best - although it's up there - but that one lecture alone is worth this whole course.

If you are interested in further (very technical and abstract) knowledge on the AI side of this coin, I highly recommend On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, as I fully recommend this course.

Engaging and challenging

This is an excellent survey of the subject. it is the sort of experience which will leave you wanting to find further courses on the various thinkers and ideas he discusses.

Spotlight of Clarity on the Mind-Body Problem

A masterful elucidation of an age old philosophical problem.

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Title: Cognitive Psychology for Dummies

Author: Peter Hills, Michael Pake

Narrator: Damian Lynch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Demystify the core concepts of cognitive psychology.

Written specifically for psychology students - and not other academics - Cognitive Psychology for Dummies is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the field. Unlike the dense and jargon-laden content found in most psychology textbooks, this practical guide provides listeners with easy-to-understand explanations of the fundamental elements of cognitive psychology so that they are able obtain a firm grasp of the material.

Cognitive Psychology for Dummies follows the structure of a typical university course, which makes it the perfect supplement for students in need of a clear and enjoyable overview of the topic. The complexities of a field that explores internal mental processes - including the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems - can be overwhelming for first-year psychology students. This practical resource cuts through the academic-speak to provide a clear understanding of the most important elements of cognitive psychology.

Members Reviews:

Excellent listen...

I found this audible spot on.

Relevant subject matter, and narrators voice interesting and easy on the ear.

Thoroughly enjoyed.

Flexibility of Audible

Loved this book some parts were difficult to understand but listening over again paid off

Awesome Audibooks

What made the experience of listening to Cognitive Psychology for Dummies the most enjoyable?

The experience was great. Would recommend this all my friends.

What did you like best about this story?

Awesome Audibooks

Have you listened to any of Damian Lynchs other performances? How does this one compare?

NO not yet

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

NO

Any additional comments?

The experience was great. Would recommend this all my friends.

Text book

A bit too dull, just when you think it is going to get to a point it references another chapter of the book.

Well written but too much like a reference book

The style of writing in this book is very easy to listen to and the narrator certainly gets this across well. The concepts of how the brain works and how our senses interact with our brains is thorough. As the book is sequential in nature, it reads like a reference book. This makes it heavy going to listen to. Cases studies are very short as you would expect in a reference book but given that the book is an audible book, longer case studies would have helped a narrative thread. This is my main criticism of the book.

The one thing that the book doesn't say is how cognitive psychology helps people or give solid ideas to the reader about how he/she could use it. A greater focus on case studies and ideas for the reader would have been best.

The recording is good although whenever the narrator says the word, "Psychology" the sibilance is painful!

An interesting book but not really effective as an audio book given it's reference type structure.

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Title: The Brain Warrior's Way

Subtitle: Ignite Your Energy and Focus, Attack Illness and Aging, Transform Pain into Purpose

Author: Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Tana Amen, BSN, RN

Narrator: Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Tana Amen, BSN, RN

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-16

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 122 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times best-selling authors Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are ready to lead you to victory.

When you're trying to live a healthy lifestyle, every day can feel like a battle. Forces are destroying our bodies and our minds. The standard American diet we consume is making us sick; we are constantly bombarded by a fear-mongering news media; and we're hypnotized by technical gadgets that keep us from our loved ones. Even our own genes can seem like they're out to get us.

But you can win the war. You can live your life to the fullest, be your best, and feel your greatest, and the key to victory rests between your ears.

Your brain runs your life. When it works right, your body works right, and your decisions tend to be thoughtful and goal directed. Bad choices, however, can lead to a myriad of problems in your body. Studies have shown that your habits turn on or off certain genes that make illness and early death more or less likely. But you can master your brain and body for the rest of your life with a scientifically designed program: the Brain Warrior's Way.

The Brain Warrior's Way is your arsenal to win the fight to live a better life. The Amens will guide you through the process and give you the tools to take control. So if you're serious about your health, whether out of desire or necessity, it's time to arm yourself and head into battle.

Master your brain and body for the rest of your life. This is not a program to lose 10 pounds, even though you will do that - and lose much more if needed. You can also prevent Alzheimer's, reverse aging, and improve your:

The Amens have helped tens of thousands of clients over 30 years, and now they can help you. It is time to live a better life - right now!

Members Reviews:

Great info, too much pitching.

I've been using this plan for 4 weeks, it's not easy. But it works and my blood pressure numbers have never been lower.

Just great stuff everyone should know about.

Helped me frame my healthy lifestyle and nutrition in a very functional and practical way. I found this to be very solid and useful.

Thank you

magnificent book

magnificent! very thorough, I learned a lot. I learned what to do, what not to do, amd why. A lot about nutrtion's effect on the brain.

Step aside Dr Amen with the narrating

this book is very informational but Dr Amen needs to step aside when it comes to the narration. I couldn't get through the entire book because of the doctors monotone descriptions. I'm usually not harsh with reviews but if you're going to listen to this book you need to take in consideration the narrator.

Big Disappointment

What disappointed you about The Brain Warrior's Way?

This is by far the worst self improvement book I have ever read/heard. I was looking forward to actually learn how I can make positive changes. After the first 3 minutes I kept forwarding to the next chapter, and the next. Halfway through the book the author and his wife were still discussing the benefits of the 'Brain Warriors Way' and how it helped them.I found this book a complete waste of time. They never got to the point were they gave instructions to follow.

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Title: The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs

Author: Ransom Stephens

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Using understandable metaphors and easy to follow language, Stephens gives listeners of any scientific level an introduction to neuroscience and shows them how things like creativity, skill, and even perception of self can grow and change by utilizing the body's most important muscle. Fans of Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson will love Stephens' down-to-earth attitude, and those interested in science will appreciate his thoughtful explanations of scientific terms. The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to know what's going on inside their head and how they can use that knowledge to make themselves the best humans they can be.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating and Funny

I've been reading a lot of brain books recently and this is one of the best. It reminded me of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast,Thinking Slow, and of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins. Like those books, it made me feel like I was an ideal observer, looking into my own brain churning away doing its stuff, and finally understanding how I work. Exhilarating. But Stephens's book stands apart from the others in one important way. It reads like a novel. I powered through it in a weekend.In fact, I set aside a pretty good Scandinavian suspense thriller to read this one because this one was more fun. Believe me, I don't often set aside Scandinavian thrillers to delve into advanced biology. The people I was with kept asking me what I was laughing about and looked skeptical when I said "neural science," but it's true. The thing is, in this book, "funny" is not comic relief. The jokes and wisecracks and metaphors are all integral to making complex topics clear as glass. Perhaps it was only my right brain laughing, but it sure felt like all of me reading.

One Great Read

The Left Brain Speaks, The Right Brain Laughs is the best book written, that I have read, that bridges the gap between mathematics, physics and neurology. Ransom takes a light tone, with a dash of cavalier attitude and a pinch of bravado, to make the topic lively. He tells the story of the brain with wit and style that engages your right brain to find delight in learning. This is a rare gift. I put it up there with Marcus du Sautoy (Symmetry) and Leonard Mlodinow (Euclid's Window) in telling stories on a technical subject with personal anecdotes. It's the highly personal style that makes the book so readable. The major difference is that Ransom is much funnier. Loved the book. Would highly recommend it to all my friends.

Understanding the Mind

There is so much to learn about how our mind works that it boggles one to try. Yet it is explained in terms the average person can enjoy.

Four Stars

A very readable book with lots of good info and even some cÄuckles.

Four Stars

Very entertaining, it has helped me understand myself and others.

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Title: Forbidden Psychology 101

Subtitle: The Cool Stuff They Didn't Teach You About In School

Author: Madison Taylor

Narrator: Jim D Johnston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-16

Publisher: Make Profits Easy LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 76 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Psychology is the fascinating study of the human mind's inner workings. Understanding psychology lets you understand people. You can use an understanding of people to make human interaction and life in general easier.

But there is a dark side to psychology. A side that people do not speak about in polite society. A side that is explicitly forbidden by ethical committees and such supervising agencies as the UN and the Geneva Convention. This is forbidden psychology.

Forbidden psychology includes manipulation, mind control, brainwashing, emotional and mental abuse, deception, torture, and seduction. It is the process of using your understanding of the human mind to get your way and cause harm.

Forbidden psychology is not always nice. But life is not always nice, either. An understanding of forbidden psychology enables you to take control of your life by controlling others who stand in your way. It also enables you to understand the harmful dark psychology that other people use on you, so that you can take measures to protect yourself.

No matter why you are interested in forbidden psychology, this book is your ultimate guide to forbidden psychology topics. This book is filled with the mesmerizing and forbidden world of mind control and manipulation. You will learn about everything from how to lie effectively to how to interrogate people for the truth, from subliminal advertising to torturing prisoners of war, from seducing someone to brainwashing. How you use this information is up to you. But certainly forbidden psychology is a fascinating subject that anyone can benefit from knowing.

Begin your journey into the dark side of psychology today.

Members Reviews:

Well organized; Poor material.

I didn't have much trouble getting through it, though the subject matter was really dark, low frequency, evil. The presentation was lucid but the material was somewhere between dated and common sense, making the best, so-to-speak, part the old torture methods. Not one I would recommend. It's just a manual from a perspective of insensitivity on how to be the kind of loser we can all spot a mile away and read like a book today.

A must read!

If you have ever been in an abusive relationship, this book is a MUST read! It's incredibly eye opening.

DO NOT PURCHASE THIS AUDIO BOOK

It's repetitive and silly! I found myself laughing out loud and wondering to myself why I'm even listening to the simplistic & nonsensical information being shared. I wasted my time, please spare yourself the painful listen.

Ok but not special

This book was ok, but I don't recommend it. It really just skimmed the surface.

nope

there was not very much information in this book that is not commonly known it was actually a waste of time to listen to it I would not recommend it.

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Title: Mind

Subtitle: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human

Author: Daniel J. Siegel

Narrator: Daniel J. Siegel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 88 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

A scientist's exploration into the mysteries of the human mind.

Neuroscience studies the brain, but what does science have to say about the mind? A full examination of what we mean by the term "mind" has traditionally been the province of philosophers, but what might neuroscience teach us about it? How does the mind differ from consciousness? And how do we know who we really are?

In this book, noted neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., brings his characteristic sensitivity and interdisciplinary background to this most perplexing of topics. He explores the nature of the who, how, what, why, and when of your mind - of your self - from the perspective of neuroscience. Mind is the essence of our true nature, our deepest sense of being alive, here, right now, in this moment. How science explains it is truly one of the most exciting journeys into knowledge we can take.

Members Reviews:

love

this book is amazing! I learned so much and feel a deeper connection with myself and our planet. I've never been great with Physics so it did get a bit complex for a little bit. I can say that I understand more than when I began this book! I recommend this to anyone and everyone looking for a better connection with our world.

Uuugh!

How many times can you repeat yourself? It appears that Dr. Siegel has babbled himself into conclusion and conviction.

Too scientific

The subject was interesting but it was intended for academics. However if examples of real life situations were more maybe would have been good for normal people like me.

Dreadfully redundant

The premise is compelling but the book restates it so often and so pedantically that there's no momentum. The reader begins soon to wonder if the author is ever going to get on with developing his ideas or just keep repeating them.

STOP! MAKE IT STOP!

Here we have a well-meaning fellow with a passion for three things: 1) The obvious, 2) endless description as if it constitutes evidence, and 3) the thinly-stretched need to convince us that he has enveloped and super-setted everyone both since Plato and now on Audible.

I appreciate expertise. I take that means a therapist sticking to what they know. Instead we are prefaced with an architonic worthy of Kant and the constant intonation to follow him on a "journey" that offers little authentic or original to trust.