Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Psychology & Mental Health

In the wake of a divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out. This Is Your Brain on Sex is her lively and hilarious examination of the big questions about love and sex, previously published in hardcover as Dirty Minds. Each chapter of this edgy romp through the romantic brain looks at a different aspect of love above the belt.

Un clásico indiscutible del desarrollo humano, este audiolibro contiene un puñado de cuentos que brillan con luz propia y cuyos mensajes nos ayudan a ver con más claridad la realidad cotidiana, con sus alegrías y tristezas, sus triunfos y derrotas, sus verdades y misterios. Cada uno de estos relatos tiene la virtud de sanar las heridas, orientar la búsqueda del propio ser y allanar el camino de la autorrealización.

Casi todos conocemos a perfeccionistas como el que se empeña en sacar sobresaliente a toda costa, quien se pasa horas maquillándose antes de salir de casa, el que tarda un siglo en preparar las maletas... Designados como perfeccionistas desde la psicología y como anancásticos desde la psiquiatría, estas personas son portadoras de una genética peculiar y de unos hábitos mentales y conductuales muy concretos que van a perfilar --si no se les ayuda-- una dolorida biografía cargada de lastres, frenos y contradicciones que mermarán significativamente su calidad de vida....

In Love, Again, Eve Pell beautifully and thoughtfully concludes that life experience adds dimensions to the art of connection - and that we all stand to learn something from unexpected romance. How do old people meet new loves? Eve Pell was 68 when she convinced a friend to set her up with Sam Hirabayashi. Ten years her senior, Sam, a fellow runner, was handsome and sweet. Soon Eve and Sam were plunged into a giddy romance that began with a movie date.

Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distills three decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Whether you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any skill that matters to you.

What is it that makes you distinct from me? Identity is a term much used but hard to define. For that very reason, it has long been a topic of fascination for philosophers but has been regarded with aversion by neuroscientists - until now. Susan Greenfield takes us on a journey in search of a biological interpretation of this most elusive of concepts, guiding us through the social and psychiatric perspectives and ultimately to the heart of the physical brain.

Lacan renovou a psicanálise e a aproximou das ciências humanas, como a linguística.

Hay muchas clases de cuentos - los didácticos, con su moraleja; los que se cuentan alrededor del fuego en las acampadas; los de risa, los de miedo... -, pero hay unos que destacan especialmente en la infancia: los que se leen antes de dormir. Todos recordamos con dulzura las historias que nuestros padres nos contaban al acostarnos. Este audiolibro trata de esas narraciones, particularmente de aquellas que consiguen su fin: favorecer el sueño.

In this path-breaking volume, engagingly written for the general public, psychiatrist Jeffrey Kahn reveals that the Angst of anxiety and depression ultimately results from our transformation, over tens of thousands of years, from biologically shaped, almost herd-like prehistoric tribes, to rational and independent individuals in modern civilization. Because of our Reason, we don't choose to act like sheep.

"What is wrong with men today?" That is the question the 27 million single, separated, and divorced women in this country ask themselves again and again. Married women sometimes wonder too. This is the book they’ve all been waiting for. The Love Crisis is a field guide to the contemporary male. Women define the Love Crisis through complaints about skittish men who play destructive games with them or who are unable to make commitments.

Quickly reduce your anxiety symptoms - and achieve lasting wellbeing - with the simple eight-week action plan in The Mindfulness Workbook for Anxiety. Current research has proven that mindfulness is an effective way to reduce and relieve anxiety. The Mindfulness Workbook for Anxiety delivers practical strategies for applying mindfulness to the daily events that cause anxiety and stress. From basic skills building to real-life application, this audiobook outlines simple techniques that are specially designed to replace anxiety with peace and wellbeing.

Dr. Jeanne Safer has dedicated much of her decades-long career in psychotherapy to exploring taboo subjects that we all think about in private but seldom discuss in public. From conflicted sibling relationships to the choice not to have children, Safer's work has always been unflinching in its aim to dive deep into topics that make most of us blush but which are present in all of our lives. In The Golden Condom, Safer turns her sharp and fearless eye to a subject perhaps more universal than any other: love in all its permutations.

In the past the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape and the stars in the sky, too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world.

El audio libro que van a escuchar, es una aventura intelectual que induce a conocer cómo es que la ciencia ha confirmado la existencia de una "conciencia cósmica", gracias a la cual surge todo lo que existe en éste universo y es, al mismo tiempo, su creación. Introduciendo ideas científicas el autor logra envolver al lector desde las primeras oraciones, en un contexto que cuestiona la complejidad de los sueños, el papel de los átomos, y la explicación de la muerte.

Susie Bright is a sexual liberationist of the highest order. The Sexual State of the Union includes essays about dirty pictures and porn, lesbian marriage and lesbian murder, lesbian men and switching genders, vibrators, and the longevity of feminism. The writing is crisp, intelligent, and provocative; there is sure to be something that will make you cheer as well as something that will deeply offend you.

Durante muito tempo, acreditou-se que o ciúme era sinal de amor, mesmo se fosse doentio. Tanto quem era acometido por esse sentimento, como seu alvo, sofriam em demasia. Se uma relação não tivesse boas doses de ciúme, acreditava-se que isso se devia à falta de envolvimento de um dos parceiros. Porém, a nossa sociedade mudou, e com o tempo percebemos que o ciúme não é o "tempero das relações", mas sim um sinal de que algo está faltando dentro de nós: algo que nos complete e nos permita ser feliz sem a presença de outra pessoa.

In 1877, a young Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work, Studies on Hysteria. But by the time it released, Freud was moving to establish himself as a major figure in the treatment of mentally ill patients, and would let no one stand in his way. He consequently minimized Breuer's contributions, betraying his former mentor and benefactor.

As terapias baseadas na ciência ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis, ou como é conhecida em português, Análise Aplicada do Comportamento) são comprovadamente as mais eficazes para ampliar o repertório e a independência de crianças autistas ou com atrasos no desenvolvimento. Com o passar dos anos, essa ciência foi sendo aperfeiçoada, a partir de muitos estudos e pesquisas, chegando a práticas cada vez mais humanizadas, divertidas, motivadoras e com resultados de excelência.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Coward. It’s a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources from court-martial cases to literary and film classics such as Dante’s Inferno, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Thin Red Line, Cowardice recounts the great harm that both cowards and the fear of seeming cowardly have done, and traces the idea of cowardice’s power to its evolutionary roots.