Listen free for 30 days
-
Why Love Matters
- How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
People who bought this also bought...
-
Nurturing Children
- From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
- By: Graham Music
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nurturing Children describes children’s lives transformed through therapy. Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis alongside modern developmental thinking from neurobiology, attachment and trauma theory and mindfulness, Music creates his own distinctive blend of approaches to help even the most traumatised of children.
-
The Body Never Lies
- The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
- By: Alice Miller
- Narrated by: Sara Clinton
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases.
-
-
Read this is you have M.E/CFS/Fibromyalgia
- By Amazon Customer on 04-10-19
-
Why Therapy Works
- Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains
- By: Louis Cozolino
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved - especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn, and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change. Listeners will learn why therapists have to look beyond just words, diagnoses, and presenting problems to the inner histories of their clients in order to discover paths to positive change.
-
-
Still wondering 'why therapy works'.
- By Zachary on 16-11-20
-
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- By: Professor Dave Mearns, Professor Mick Cooper
- Narrated by: Chris Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This groundbreaking text goes to the very heart of the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client. Focusing on the concept of "relational depth", the authors describe a form of encounter in which therapist and client experience profound feelings of contact and engagement with each other, and in which the client has an opportunity to explore whatever is experienced as most fundamental to her or his existence.
-
-
Constant references ruin tge writing.
- By Amazon Customer on 29-10-20
-
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
- By: Nathan Filer
- Narrated by: Nathan Filer
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nathan Filer, mental health nurse and award-winning writer, takes us on a journey into the psychiatric wards he once worked on. He also invites us to spend time with world-leading experts and with some extraordinary people who share their own stories - true stories - about living with this strange and misunderstood condition.
-
-
This book will change your mind
- By Jo C on 16-01-20
-
Attachment in Psychotherapy
- By: David J. Wallin
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness.
-
-
I got a lot out of this book
- By Lesley palm on 11-03-18
-
Nurturing Children
- From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
- By: Graham Music
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nurturing Children describes children’s lives transformed through therapy. Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis alongside modern developmental thinking from neurobiology, attachment and trauma theory and mindfulness, Music creates his own distinctive blend of approaches to help even the most traumatised of children.
-
The Body Never Lies
- The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
- By: Alice Miller
- Narrated by: Sara Clinton
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases.
-
-
Read this is you have M.E/CFS/Fibromyalgia
- By Amazon Customer on 04-10-19
-
Why Therapy Works
- Using Our Minds to Change Our Brains
- By: Louis Cozolino
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Why Therapy Works, Louis Cozolino explains the mechanisms of psychotherapeutic change from the bottom up, beginning with the brain, and how brains have evolved - especially how brains evolved to learn, unlearn, and relearn, which is at the basis of lasting psychological change. Listeners will learn why therapists have to look beyond just words, diagnoses, and presenting problems to the inner histories of their clients in order to discover paths to positive change.
-
-
Still wondering 'why therapy works'.
- By Zachary on 16-11-20
-
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- By: Professor Dave Mearns, Professor Mick Cooper
- Narrated by: Chris Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This groundbreaking text goes to the very heart of the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client. Focusing on the concept of "relational depth", the authors describe a form of encounter in which therapist and client experience profound feelings of contact and engagement with each other, and in which the client has an opportunity to explore whatever is experienced as most fundamental to her or his existence.
-
-
Constant references ruin tge writing.
- By Amazon Customer on 29-10-20
-
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
- By: Nathan Filer
- Narrated by: Nathan Filer
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nathan Filer, mental health nurse and award-winning writer, takes us on a journey into the psychiatric wards he once worked on. He also invites us to spend time with world-leading experts and with some extraordinary people who share their own stories - true stories - about living with this strange and misunderstood condition.
-
-
This book will change your mind
- By Jo C on 16-01-20
-
Attachment in Psychotherapy
- By: David J. Wallin
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness.
-
-
I got a lot out of this book
- By Lesley palm on 11-03-18
-
The Developing Mind, Third Edition
- How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
- By: Daniel J. Siegel M.D.
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 31 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This highly influential work - now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field - gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is, how it grows, and how to promote healthy development and resilience.
-
Cure
- A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body
- By: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The field of mind-body medicine is plagued by wild claims that mislead patients and instil false hope. But as scientists in a range of fields uncover solid evidence that our minds influence our bodies quite profoundly, there is now great promise, too. Jo Marchant attempts to use scientific research to find out if alternative medicines work; if our thoughts, beliefs and emotions influence our physical health; and if we can train our brains to heal our bodies.
-
-
Excellent content, terrible narration
- By Gemma on 12-03-17
-
Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Second Edition
- By: Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy
- Narrated by: Brian Arens
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
IFS reveals how the subpersonalities or "parts" of each individual's psyche relate to each other like members of a family, and how - just as in a family - polarization among parts can lead to emotional suffering. IFS originator Richard Schwartz and master clinician Martha Sweezy explain core concepts and provide practical guidelines for implementing IFS with clients who are struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, and other behavioral problems.
-
-
In-depth, fascinating introduction to IFS
- By Josie McLellan on 28-11-20
-
Psychodynamic Counselling in Action
- Counselling in Action series
- By: Michael Jacobs
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This substantially revised fifth edition of a classic text includes an updated preface, new content on the therapeutic relationship, substantially revised chapters on the middle phase of counselling and reflections on the influence of other modalities and shared aspects of practice across approaches. Each chapter now includes an annotated further listening section to help deepen knowledge and reinforce learning of key aspects of the counselling process.
-
-
Unlistenable, sadly
- By Dr. Natural Born Sceptic on 21-12-20
-
The Making of a Therapist
- A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey
- By: Louis Cozolino
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The difficulty and cost of training psychotherapists properly is well known. It is far easier to provide a series of classes while ignoring the more challenging personal components of training. Despite the fact that the therapist's self-insight and emotional maturity are critical for successful psychotherapy, knowledge and technical skills are the focus of most training programs. As a result, the therapist's personal growth is either marginalized or ignored. The Making of a Therapist counters this trend by offering therapists a personal account of this important inner journey.
-
-
Amazing book
- By Scott on 25-01-19
-
The Body Keeps the Score
- Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
- By: Bessel van der Kolk
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this audiobook, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma - which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.
-
-
Good advice but hard to relate to
- By Deborah on 11-07-20
-
Trauma and Recovery
- The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
- By: Judith Lewis Herman
- Narrated by: Alison Mathews
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.
-
Client Centered Therapy
- By: Carl Rogers
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this best-selling book, one of America's most distinguished psychologists crystallises the great progress that has been made in the development of the techniques and basic philosophy of counselling. Carl Rogers gives a clear exposition of procedures by which individuals who are being counselled may be assisted in achieving for themselves new and more effective personality adjustments. Contemporary psychology derives largely from the experimental laboratory or from Freudian theory. It is preoccupied with minute aspects of animal and human behaviour or with psychopathology.
-
Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Storr
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology, which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships. Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud's legacy today and the disputes that surround it.
-
-
Informative and good to listen to
- By Sissi on 12-11-15
-
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
How does trauma affect a child's mind - and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.
-
-
Amazing
- By EDorey on 14-01-19
-
Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist.
-
-
Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
-
The Self Illusion
- Why There Is No "You" Inside Your Head
- By: Bruce Hood
- Narrated by: Bruce Hood
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Self Illusion provides a fascinating examination of how the latest science shows that our individual concept of a self is in fact an illusion. Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body is compelling and inescapable. But that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threat from science as our understanding of the brain advances.
-
-
Well written, well read! I enjoyed disagreeing.
- By Jim Vaughan on 21-01-13
Summary
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of the first, updating the scientific research, covering recent findings in genetics and the mind/body connection, and including a new chapter highlighting our growing understanding of the part also played by pregnancy in shaping a baby’s future emotional and physical well-being.
The author focuses in particular on the wide-ranging effects of early stress on a baby or toddler’s developing nervous system. When things go wrong with relationships in early life, the dependent child has to adapt; what we now know is that his or her brain adapts too. The brain’s emotion and immune systems are particularly affected by early stress and can become less effective. This makes the child more vulnerable to a range of later difficulties such as depression, anti-social behaviour and addictions or anorexia, as well as physical illness.
More from the same
What listeners say about Why Love Matters
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- citizen67
- 10-02-20
Brilliant!!
One of the best and most important books I have ever listened to, and it tells me so much about my life and my problems I have suffered stemming from the neglect I suffered as a baby and a child from my narcissistic Mother. It explained so much. Every politician and decision-maker in this country should read (listen to) this book. I find this Audible speaking-books system a very easy way to absorb a book, although this particular book was over 10 hours long I listen to it through completely 2x times, and then put it on in the background as I was doing things many, many more times to absorb all of the details of what it said.
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Miss Lisa J mitchell
- 19-01-21
Brilliant
Absolutely brilliant read, loved every minute. Should be taught in every school in the world
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 20-12-20
important read for all parents
Be warned it's hard not to feel guilty and worry about how to undo your parenting mistakes. Fear not as the solution is to start being responsive to your own and children's emotions- achnowledge feelings and practice impulse control. Easily said,but yet to put this into practice.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 15-12-20
A must read for anybody really.
It is comprehensive, very well researched and provides a very persuasive argument for investing and valuing infant care and relationships between caregivers and their babies. It provides insight about early experience we all could benefit from, regardless of our profession or whether or not we have children. I would definitely recommend it to anyone having children, or caring for young children though. Excellent.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Emma F
- 10-09-20
Thorough and well researched
As a parent, it's easy to pick up one book or article that recommends one approach to baby and child care and then pick up another that recommends a contrary approach. What I found compelling about this book is that it is well researched with the arguments in favour of a gentle, responsive and more emotionally devoted type of parenting style all evidenced by science and studies. The book is extremely well referenced throughout. It is however quite pithy and academic to read/listen to at times, which makes me think it is more pitched at other academics in the field more-so than an exhausted mum. Still, very useful from a parenting perspective!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- JoePublic
- 17-07-20
Essential reading, exquisitely narrated
Phyllida Nash’s well paced narration ensures Sue Gerhardt’s message is clearly heard. A comprehensively researched and fascinating book. An important work evidencing links between early life experiences and adult dysfunction across the lifecycle. It will change the way you think.
-
Overall
- Frazer
- 13-07-20
Brilliant
As a practicing child psychotherapist this book was full of useful studies in contemporary neuroscience. Highly recommend.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Luke
- 20-02-20
Every parent should read this book
I read this as part of a recommended reading for graduate level classes/working as a new clinician. Regardless, every parent, or soon to be parent, should read this book. Developmental psychology and attachment theory is quite fascinating but many folks who read this book will discover why their personality is the way it is, and gives good strategy for raising securely attached children.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Jessica P.
- 26-12-20
interesting book well read
could have more practical examples on how to regulate your baby. I'm so worried now after reading it. did I let him stress too long or was finishing lunch in order to feed more important?