Bestsellers
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Madness
- Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
- By: Antonia Hylton
- Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Glad to have added this to my cerebral quarters
- By Alednam A Uonopk on 04-25-24
By: Antonia Hylton
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A Degree in a Book: Psychology
- Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject—in One Book!
- By: Alan Porter
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Psychology provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. It covers the whole range of psychological research....
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tools highlighted to expound on psychology studies
- By Destiny McMillon on 09-23-24
By: Alan Porter
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NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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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 long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
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Jung
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Stevens
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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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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Very nice - will not be disappointed
- By Edgar on 12-15-05
By: Anthony Stevens
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Freud
- The Routledge Philosophers
- By: Jonathan Lear
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact....
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Brilliant
- By Matthew Anderson on 02-07-24
By: Jonathan Lear
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The Psychology Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas presented in an approachable style that demystifies an often daunting subject matter....
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Puts history and a real relatabity to Psychology
- By Conrad Jensen on 01-13-19
By: DK
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Madness
- Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
- By: Antonia Hylton
- Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Glad to have added this to my cerebral quarters
- By Alednam A Uonopk on 04-25-24
By: Antonia Hylton
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A Degree in a Book: Psychology
- Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject—in One Book!
- By: Alan Porter
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Psychology provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. It covers the whole range of psychological research....
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tools highlighted to expound on psychology studies
- By Destiny McMillon on 09-23-24
By: Alan Porter
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NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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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 long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
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Jung
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Stevens
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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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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Very nice - will not be disappointed
- By Edgar on 12-15-05
By: Anthony Stevens
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Freud
- The Routledge Philosophers
- By: Jonathan Lear
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact....
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Brilliant
- By Matthew Anderson on 02-07-24
By: Jonathan Lear
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The Psychology Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas presented in an approachable style that demystifies an often daunting subject matter....
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Puts history and a real relatabity to Psychology
- By Conrad Jensen on 01-13-19
By: DK
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Being Wrong
- Adventures in the Margin of Error
- By: Kathryn Schulz
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A good read
- By Mike Kircher on 10-06-10
By: Kathryn Schulz
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Sybil Exposed
- The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
- By: Debbie Nathan
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities....
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No definitive answer, just speculations all around
- By Amy A on 12-30-18
By: Debbie Nathan
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- By: Gustave Le Bon
- Narrated by: Joseph Gomez
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A must read in terms of group psychology....
- By Alednam A Uonopk on 08-19-20
By: Gustave Le Bon
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The Neurotic Character
- Fundamentals of a Comparative Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy
- By: Alfred Adler
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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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It’s a wonderful treat that this book is even available in audible form
- By Clint on 07-13-24
By: Alfred Adler
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La interpretación de los sueños [The Interpretation of Dreams]
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Salvador Bosch
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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La interpretación de los sueños de Sigmund Freud es uno de los libros más importantes del siglo XX....
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Enjoy it a lot
- By Elsa Maria Gutierrez on 03-04-24
By: Sigmund Freud
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Immensely entertaining
- By Benjamin Myers on 05-15-17
By: Sigmund Freud
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American Psychosis
- How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
- By: E. Fuller Torrey
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program....
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Devastating analysis on US mental health policy!
- By Kevin on 07-13-14
By: E. Fuller Torrey
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Mini Psychology
- A Small Book About Our Big Brains
- By: Jonny Thomson
- Narrated by: Jonny Thomson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether you're a student of psychology or you're just interested in the workings of the brain, Mini Psychology offers a window onto the fascinating mysteries of the human psyche, covering everything from how our memories are formed to why some people are so resistant to change.
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Succinct and engaging
- By Kathleen F. Anderson on 09-13-24
By: Jonny Thomson
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The Lives They Left Behind
- Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
- By: Peter Stastny, Darby Penney
- Narrated by: Alex Paul
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation....
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Not really the book I expected
- By B. Shaff on 11-09-17
By: Peter Stastny, and others
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Desperate Remedies
- Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
- By: Andrew Scull
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past....
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A Great History but I Have One Big Reservation
- By Jeffrey Scot Minch on 08-02-22
By: Andrew Scull
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- By: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Important story of fraud really well told
- By ReallyNelie on 12-27-19
By: Susannah Cahalan
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Personality Disorders
- A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types
- By: Allan V. Horwitz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Not What I Thought It Would Be
- By D.H. on 02-14-24
By: Allan V. Horwitz
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The Sullivanians
- Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
- By: Alexander Stille
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City....
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As a former member…
- By Lisa Cohen on 07-10-23
By: Alexander Stille
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Psychonauts
- Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
- By: Mike Jay
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Outstanding
- By Austin on 07-20-24
By: Mike Jay
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Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: Meaning-Centered Counseling
- By: Ann Graber
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Ann Graber's magnificent work presented here in the Second Edition on Viktor Frankl is a serious attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness and ...
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Great Book
- By Douglas on 02-02-24
By: Ann Graber
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A Cure for Darkness
- The Story of Depression and How We Treat It
- By: Alex Riley
- Narrated by: Alex Riley
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating, “rich, and generous” (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular science, narrative history, and memoir....
By: Alex Riley
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In a Different Key
- The Story of Autism
- By: John Donvan, Caren Zucker
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition....
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The New Book on Autism
- By Gadget on 02-26-16
By: John Donvan, and others
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The Premonitions Bureau
- By: Sam Knight
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time. Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call....
By: Sam Knight
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Opening Skinner's Box
- Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
- By: Lauren Slater
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories....
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Great book, robotic reader
- By Eva on 08-29-17
By: Lauren Slater
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A Secret History of Consciousness
- By: Gary Lachman
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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 worst audio and narration on Audible
- By NoirGuitarSuperstar on 03-25-21
By: Gary Lachman
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Mind Fixers
- Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
- By: Anne Harrington
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the unfulfilled quest to find the biological basis of mental illness, and its profound effects on patients, families, and American society....
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A summary relevant to each of us
- By R3 on 04-28-19
By: Anne Harrington
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery....
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Mental Illness in America - An American Tragedy
- By Bob G on 11-28-24
By: Robert Whitaker
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The Inkblots
- Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
- By: Damion Searls
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots....
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Memorable
- By Jason Comely on 03-04-17
By: Damion Searls
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The Evil Hours
- A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- By: David J. Morris
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Just as polio loomed over the 1950s and AIDS stalked the 1980s and 1990s, post-traumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the 21st century....
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The hell where youth and laugher go
- By Cynthia on 02-28-15
By: David J. Morris