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Title: Improving Brain Function, Memory and Consciousness: A Focus on Neuroplasticity and Neuroscience

Author: Thomas D. Edison

Narrator: Michael Colman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-15

Publisher: WE CANT BE BEAT LLC

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve brain, function, memory and consciousness, which are examined through the lens of neuroscience and neuroplasticity. It contains an end-to-end analysis of strategies improving brain's functionality with respect to age, brain capacity and health. Additionally, it puts forward that while having poor memory is exceptionally normal, particularly in older people, you ought to be concerned in the event that it begins hindering your typical regular exercises. Research in this area leads to obvious causes of memory loss such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases.

Noticeably, achieving an optimum brain function, memory and consciousness is hard to attain, but it can be honed and it can be learned if you have the determination. This book contains an in-depth analysis of life-style based techniques, "natural" remedies and foods that boost our memory. In addition, this book hunts down answers on the consciousness debate by looking at how to remold your brain with neuroplasticity.

Members Reviews:

Terrible narrator

Sorry but I could not finish it. The narrator has a terrible voice and pauses all the time. I could follow the reading and lost attention due to the narration.

Another book ruined by poor narration

I don't think I've ever heard a worse narrator. I must be a masochist because this was 3 hours of torture. He sounds like Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Maybe I can talk my ex-husband into listening to it while he's driving thereby falling asleep at the wheel and going over a cliff.

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Title: NPD: An Explanation of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and The Narcissistic Personality Disorder Epidemic

Subtitle: The Misunderstood Loner, Part 4

Author: J.B. Snow

Narrator: Sorrel Brigman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-15

Publisher: JB Snow Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Excerpt:

Narcissists can have many traits that may be undesirable to others, especially in a relationship dynamic. They often talk down to others or criticize them. They live by their own morals and values, which may change as it suits them. They can be extremely vain and self-conscious, constantly being fussy about little things. They don't enjoy intimacy and connectedness that others enjoy in relationships. The world seems to revolve around the person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. For this very reason, they can be difficult to maintain a healthy relationship with. No one wants to hear one person talk about themselves all of the time. It gets nauseating.

One of the easiest ways that you can identify a Narcissistic partner is by their dialogue with others. They don't give compliments because they believe they are superior to others, and they see no point in complimenting people who they view are inferior to them. If they do give a compliment, it will be because they know the other person values compliments. It is likely that they are using a method of giving compliments in order to gain attention or admiration for themselves.

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Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Very informative about the Narcissist personality disorder considering it is written from the Narc point of view

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Title: Stop Panic Attacks and Anxiety Disorders

Subtitle: Overcome Panic, Stress and Anxiety and Live a Happy Panic Free Life!

Author: Michele Gilbert

Narrator: Chris Poirier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-15

Publisher: Michele L.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Stop panic attacks and anxiety disorders without drugs now!

This book was written to help you beat your panic attack problem. However, the main goal is to help you overcome the shame you can feel related to panic attacks. First you will get explanations of panic attacks and anxiety disorders to prove how common they really are. Then, after thoroughly explaining panic attacks we will move to the ways that will help you combat them and keep them under control.

Here is a preview of what you'll learn:

Learn how to handle Panic Attacks when they occur so you can get your life back!

Members Reviews:

Simplistic

I lost face in this book when it stated that homeopathy remedy can cure anxiety and panic attacks as well as traditional remedies and medication.

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Title: An Explanation of Avoidant Personality Disorder

Subtitle: The Misunderstood Loner, Part 2

Author: J.B. Snow

Narrator: Gene Blake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-15

Publisher: JB Snow Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

If you downloaded this audiobook, it is likely that you or someone that you know may have traits of avoidant personality disorder. Or maybe you want to learn more about avoidant personality disorder and its sufferers. You are in the right place. In this book, we will cover the different traits for this disorder, as well as who this disorder affects.

Avoidant personality disorder is a set of deficient or negative traits that are pervasive and hinder a person's full capability to be social and productive in all areas of their life. Many people mistake avoidant personality disorder with schizoid personality disorder, autism, Asperger's disorder, or anti-social personality disorder. Many think that anti-social personality disorder is a kind of social ineptness. Anti-social disorder is actually a pervasive set of personality traits which make a person have problems with authority and criminal problems. They often cannot fit into society. Our prisons are filled with people who have signs of anti-social personality disorder. This disorder is not the same as avoidant personality disorder. Both disorders, however, typically inherit the stereotype of being "loners" even though they are loners for very different reasons.

The traits that are inherent in avoidant personality disorder is a social ineptness and awkwardness that cause a person to avoid others and schedule their activities so that they can be in solitude. Persons with avoidant personality disorder tend to have anxiety attacks and extreme shyness that cause them to feel very uncomfortable around others. They don't feel like they fit into society, and they struggle to follow social norms. They struggle with school, college, work, and home life because of this discomfort with interacting with others.

Members Reviews:

You might as well read Wikipedia article on it

What would have made An Explanation of Avoidant Personality Disorder better?

A lot more information

Has An Explanation of Avoidant Personality Disorder turned you off from other books in this genre?

There aren't many books in about Avoidant Personality Disorder. That's why I bought this one in the first place.

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

Not really. It has to be $ 0.99 tops.

Any additional comments?

The narration was good.

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Title: Play Matters

Author: Miguel Sicart

Narrator: William Neenan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we are happy and well rested, we may approach even our daily tasks in a playful way, taking the attitude of play without the activity of play. So what, then, is play? In Play Matters, Miguel Sicart argues that to play is to be in the world; playing is a form of understanding what surrounds us and a way of engaging with others. Play goes beyond games; it is a mode of being human. We play games, but we also play with toys, on playgrounds, with technologies and design. Sicart proposes a theory of play that doesn't derive from a particular object or activity but is a portable tool for being - not tied to objects but brought by people to the complex interactions that form their daily lives. It is not separated from reality; it is part of it. It is pleasurable but not necessarily fun. Play can be dangerous, addictive, and destructive. Along the way Sicart considers playfulness, the capacity to use play outside the context of play; toys, the materialization of play - instruments but also play pals; playgrounds, play spaces that enable all kinds of play; beauty, the aesthetics of play through action; political play - from Maradona's goal against England in the 1986 World Cup to the hactivist activities of Anonymous; the political, aesthetic, and moral activity of game design; and why play and computers get along so well. Cover image: Ann Hamilton, The Event of a Thread, 2012-2013. Otto Archive/Polfoto, photograph by James Ewing.

Members Reviews:

Essential Listening for the Armchair Philosopher

While games and game theory are currently saturating our cultural dialog, Sicart wants us to think bigger. "We are the fools looking at the finger when someone points at the moon games are the finger, play is the moon." He sees play as a portable tool for being,"not as an action of consumption, but as a matter of production."

William Neenan's narration of Sicart's writing creates a thoroughly enjoyable rhetoric of play; philosophical and enlightening. It will have you thinking of your actions in the world in a new light.

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Title: The Conscious Mind

Author: Zoltan Torey

Narrator: Don Hagen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible and concise description of the evolutionary breakthrough that created the human mind. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and linguistics, Torey reconstructs the sequence of events by which Homo erectus became Homo sapiens. He describes the augmented functioning that underpins the emergent mind - a new ("offline") internal response system with which the brain accesses itself and then forms a selection mechanism for mentally generated behavior options. This functional breakthrough, Torey argues, explains how the animal brain's "awareness" became self-accessible and reflective - that is how the human brain acquired a conscious mind. Consciousness, unlike animal awareness, is not a unitary phenomenon but a composite process. Torey's account shows how protolanguage evolved into language, how a brain subsystem for the emergent mind was built, and why these developments are opaque to introspection. We experience the brain's functional autonomy, he argues, as free will. Torey proposes that once life began, consciousness had to emerge - because consciousness is the informational source of the brain's behavioral response. Consciousness, he argues, is not a newly acquired "quality", "cosmic principle", "circuitry arrangement", or "epiphenomenon", as others have argued, but an indispensable working component of the living system's manner of functioning.

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Title: The Misunderstood Loner: An Explanation of Schizoid Personality Disorder

Subtitle: Transcend Mediocrity, Book 16

Author: J.B. Snow

Narrator: John Cox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: JB Snow Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Excerpt:

You may have seen them. Maybe you are one of them. The teens who prefer to be alone and who avoid making social connections with their peers. The adult who stays in his basement playing videogames or browsing the Internet. The little boy who chases frogs at the pond by himself instead of finding some friends to go fishing with. Maybe it is the woman who surrounds herself with cats and lives deep in the country, rarely venturing into town - even for necessities. Are these people shy, or do they have something that is much more pervasive?

Humans, by nature, generally want to be social with others. We thrive on conversation, interaction, and learning from each other. We were designed to be able to pass along our knowledge to the generations that come after us, and we strive to educate ourselves in order to be more sufficient and able to provide for our families or become productive members of society.

There is a subset of people who are different from the normal population. Their brains are wired a bit differently, or they went through experiences in their lives that contributed to their introversion, social avoidance, and shyness. They may have been sensitive children who were neglected or abused, never encouraged to learn about the world around them. Their feelings may have been invalidated while they were young, so they learned to keep their emotions inside instead of sharing them with others around them. They learned to be self-sufficient instead of relying on others and on society for their needs.

Some of these shy individuals who we classify as loners may be afflicted with a disorder called schizoid personality disorder...."

From four-time best-selling author J. B. Snow.

Members Reviews:

Great condensation

I enjoyed this book because in a few pages it gives you the gist of what it is a person with spd, how does he or she function in family or society and where does it com from. As a starting point, it's perfect. Afonso

Great quick and informational read about the schizoid mind.

Very informative and easy to read. Breaks down the essentials of the schizoid personality in a simple, digestible way that answers many questions we all have about this topic.

DIY psychology

Covered a lot of symptoms. Very interesting and enlightening.

You're done before you even knew you'd started

This is good as far as it goes, but 17 pages for $3 isn't going very far. And really, it's more like 12 pages, because the last third is a "preview" of another book on obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. If this were $0.99, I'd probably give it two or three stars.

The content itself is well written, but I can't ...

The content itself is well written, but I can't help but feel duped. The second half of this pamphlet goes into something unrelated to the title.

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Title: The Mind of a Sociopath

Subtitle: Your Guide to Understanding the Anti-Social Personality Disorder of Sociopaths

Author: Michele Gilbert

Narrator: Gary Roelofs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-15

Publisher: Michele L.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Do you have a person in your life that is just a little off and by a little off, I mean that they're full blown strange?

Are they living like an emperor in their world and using everyone around them like pawns? Are they quite possibly the smartest person you know but not living a life that is actually fulfilling by normal standards? Are they nice to you, but only when they really want something from you?

You may have found yourself a sociopath.

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Members Reviews:

Inaccurate but mildly entertaining

This person needs to do more research and data study on this very serious topic. Sociopaths are NOT reformable. In fact when you try, you are simply giving them new tools to use on other victims. There was an extensive study done on this on the 60's. This is a very real problem, but there are other books that are more helpful and accurate.

the author doesn't know anything about the subject

the author doesn't know anything about the subject, it is worthless, there are too many good books on the subject by credible authors so don.t waste your time on this one, just look at the author's other titles to realize how bogus she is.

Spot on. Amazing info. Thank you.

I have personally dealt with several sociopaths. Sometimes several at once. This book is a great way to start understanding and fighting back. I'll consider this book the basics of sociopaths. I loved all of it. It equipped me to better fight against Sociopaths. Thank you.

Not clinical

What would have made The Mind of a Sociopath better?

I got this because I thought that it dealt with antisocial personality disorder. It really just looks like someone watched a lot of crime shows and then wrote a book about it . Terrible

Would you ever listen to anything by Michele Gilbert again?

No

What about Gary Roelofss performance did you like?

He was great but slow

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

No

Some short good information

I like the simple clear comparison between sociopath & psychopath. I also appreciated the fuller extent of your explanation of what is a sociopath.

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Title: Backstabbers and Bullies

Subtitle: How to Cope with the Dark Side of People at Work

Author: Adrian Furnham

Narrator: Tim Bruce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-15

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long, and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer numbers who fail. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behavior, including: recognizing and coping with overconfident, narcissistic, and psychopathic leaders; causes of leadership derailment and failure; corrupt corporate cultures; and the criminal personality.

Fascinating listening for anyone who has worked alongside a corporate psychopath, business narcissist, or histrionic show-off, Backstabbers and Bullies goes beyond the science to explain how to better understand, manage, and prevent dark-side behavior and presents advice for reducing derailment potential for yourself, your colleagues, and your organization.

Members Reviews:

How to identify and prevent bullying at work

If you have any interest in preventing the chaos and despair caused by bullies at work this is a must listen audiobook by one of the great researchers and writers in this field.

For organisations: If you are a leader, human resources professional, involved in selection or promotion and the development of others this book will give you valuable insight in to how bullying behaviour occurs and what you can do to prevent it.

For individuals: if you are remotely interested in leading others or have the desire for power this book will help you gain self-awareness of your own dark side tendencies and how you can avoid derailing. I'd especially recommend this audibook to those on graduate programmes or identified as rising stars. The seeds of later derailing are often found in early success.

Adrian Furnham has written a book that brings together the academic research on bullying with a precise guide for using that evidence in practice at work. The descriptions of how and when bullying occurs, the psychiatry and psychology of bullying, are covered in detail. What sets this book on the subject apart is the advice on how to identify, prevent and deal with the behaviour before this becomes problematic.

I would have liked a little more detail on the reason why people commit the internet based modern white collar crimes. I thought some of the descriptions here were more routine than the rest of the book. That could be because I've grown up with the technology generation so others may feel differently.

By far the most useful element of the book for me is the descriptions of each of the pathologies, from psychopaths to narcissists, and how positive personality and leadership traits can become overused and lead to bullying under the right set of organisational, social and individual conditions.

The later chapters are a useful step by step guide from selection to promotion and leadership positions that help organisations and individuals identify when they are most at risk of bullying behaviours coming to the fore. I hope that this book is read widely and organisations take the evidence based steps suggested and create healthier, more effective and happier workplaces free from the tyranny of bullying.

Too academic

Any additional comments?

The summary intrigued me but it is also misleading. "How to cope with ..." implies a practical guide but this is not the case at all. Be aware that the writing style is very academic.

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Title: Chronic Depression: Diagnosis and Treament for Dysthymic Disorder

Author: Anthony Wilkenson

Narrator: Tom Lennon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-15

Publisher: dsk-enterprise

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Psychology & The Mind

Publisher's Summary:

Dysthymia, or chronic depression as it is commonly known, is one of the most misunderstood psychological disorders. Although it is the most common mental disorder, it is taken very casually because there is lack of knowledge about the subject. Normally, when this disorder is diagnosed, they think that the life of that person is over. This myth has to be broken because there is no logical explanation. There is nothing to be shattered about, and hopelessness will only make it worse. The best thing is that the problem has been diagnosed, and we will discuss why it is so challenging to get it diagnosed. This book takes you step by step through every aspect of chronic depression, from diagnosis, to treatment plans, to dealing with a loved one with this disorder. Starting from recognizing the symptoms, analyzing the causes, and choosing the right medication, you will enrich your knowledge and learn how to overcome chronic depression.

Depression is the most common mental illness in the world. It affects one out of six people. When a disease is so widespread and common, there are bound to be myths. All this makes dysthymia a very highly misunderstood disorder. People try to handle and treat this problem on their own, because they come across dozens of people who suffer from it, and they hear all kinds of stories about what worked for them and what did not. They form a belief system according to the stories they heard, not realizing that no two people are alike - and no two diseases are alike. If two people suffering from dysthymia are not alike, how will they respond the same way to the same treatment? It is not possible, and this is one of the main reasons why depression goes unnoticed, uncured, and misunderstood. This is also why most of the cases become chronic.

Members Reviews:

dysthymia explained

A lot to ingest all at once. kinda texty. I will listen again very soon. interesting!

About as helpful as a pamphlet

The information was so basic it read like a second grade health textbook. I don't know anyone who would read this and get new information out of it. I have a hard time believing that a professional wrote this. The suggestions offered for relief from chronic depression were ignorant. If you actually studied depression as a disorder you would know that it is almost impossible to go for a walk or socialize. "Get a pet"??? The poor guy would die of neglect. These suggestions are good for people who do not have a disorder - people who have "the blues".