The Captive Mind: Why We Love Our Abusers
By Jack Morgan
Length1h 19m
About this audiobook
Journey into the deepest recesses of the human psyche where survival instincts collide with emotional bondage. Based on recently unearthed psychological recordings and case files, this audiobook dissects the shocking phenomenon of Stockholm Syndrome: why victims form protective, sometimes loving, bonds with their captors. Explore the science, the history, and the terrifying logic behind this controversial diagnosis.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length1 hr 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Unsettling Whisper on the Tape
2Chapter 2: The Architecture of Submission: Cognitive Dissonance and Survival
3Chapter 3: The Architect of Dependency: Intermittent Reinforcement
4Chapter 4: The Architecture of Rationalization: When Dissonance Becomes Defense
5Chapter 5: The Sunk Cost Fallacy of the Soul
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6Chapter 6: The Sunk Cost of the Soul
7Chapter 7: The Indispensable Oppressor - Identification with the Aggressor
8Chapter 8: The Functional Prison and the Architecture of Obligation
9Chapter 9: The Stockholm Dividend: The Economy of Stable Misery
10Chapter 10: The Functional Abyss: Rejecting the Exit
11Chapter 11: The Competence Trap: Defining Self-Worth by the Chains
12Chapter 12: The Specialized Comfort of Predictable Pain
13Chapter 13: The Tyranny of the Specialist
14Chapter 14: The Specialized Self and The Efficiency Trap
15Chapter 15: The Crisis Economy of the Self
16Chapter 16: Peace as Provocation and The Interior Saboteur
17Chapter 17: The Predictive Programming of Pain
18Chapter 18: The Comfort of the Known Wound: Why Prediction Trumps Pleasure
19Chapter 19: The Architecture of Expected Pain
20Chapter 20: The Price of Predictability
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