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    • Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
    • By: Antonia Hylton
    • Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system....

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    • The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
    • By: Steve Silberman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,600 ratings
    • What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth it is both of these things and more....

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    • The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
    • By: Merve Emre
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no formal training in psychology - and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond....

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    • By: Gustave Le Bon
    • Narrated by: Joseph Gomez
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
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    • The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal....

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    • Fundamentals of a Comparative Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy
    • By: Alfred Adler
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • As the 20th century drew to a close, the Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was perhaps the least known of the prominent figures of his time - in particular Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung - and yet he continues to be a figure of influence in the 21st century....

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    • A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types
    • By: Allan V. Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining personality disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical conceptions of disorder....

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    • By: Erika Dyck, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Erika Dyck
    • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms. There’s been a lot of discussion in the medical world lately about the potential benefits of these and other drugs for certain medical conditions, such as anxiety and depression....

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    • A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
    • By: Joel E. Dimsdale
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media....

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    • Adventures in the Margin of Error
    • By: Kathryn Schulz
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 585 ratings
    • To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • Who we are...how we think...what we do... Here are insight and inspiration from 50 key books, including works by Freud, Horney, Jung, Kinsey, Laing, Piaget, and Skinner....

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    • The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
    • By: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind and how mind and brain relate to art....

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    • The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
    • By: Debbie Nathan
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities....

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    • By: Sigmund Freud
    • Narrated by: Derek Le Page
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The Psychopathology of Everyday Life has proved to be one of Freud's most popular works, and one of his most influential during his lifetime....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Anthony Stevens
    • Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....

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    • By: Gary Lachman
    • Narrated by: Russell Newton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings....

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    • The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
    • By: Susannah Cahalan
    • Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 499 ratings
    • From "one of America's most courageous young journalists" (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine....

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    • Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
    • By: Mike Jay
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism....

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