The Best Psychology Documentaries

Mind & Psychology - 149 free documentaries about psychology.

Start with The secret to concentration - How to increase your attention span (43 min, DW Documentary), then Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong (24 min, Veritasium). All 149 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on psychology is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

• The secret to concentration - How to increase your attention span (43 min, DW Documentary)
• Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong (24 min, Veritasium)
• How does touch affect our mental and physical health? (52 min, DW Documentary)
• SuperHuman Geniuses: World's Smartest People (46 min, Real Stories)
• I took an IQ test to explain what's wrong with them (34 min, Veritasium)
• The Scientific Lie That Damaged Generations of Men (21 min, Be Smart)
• How our brain judges people in a split second (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time (12 min, Kurzgesagt)
• The Expert Myth (18 min, Veritasium)
• Hallway Hypothesis | The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth (44 min, National Geographic)
• TALKING BACKWARDS (Backwards Banter Brain Testing) - Smarter Every Day 168 (12 min, Smarter Every Day)
• Neuromarketing: How Companies Hack Your Brain (55 min, Spark)
• The Illusion of Truth (8 min, Veritasium)
• How Every Movie & Video Game Tricks Your Brain (19 min, Be Smart)
• Carl Jung and the Psychology of the Man-Child (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things (16 min, After Skool)
• The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy (10 min, After Skool)
• Trying to Land a Plane (to Prove the Dunning-Kruger Effect) (19 min, Be Smart)
• Why Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies? (8 min, Be Smart)
• Carl Jung and the Archetypes - Making the Unconscious Conscious (22 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why are Most People Cowards? | Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Integrate Your Shadow - The Dark Side is Unrealized Potential (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung - The Power of Knowing Your Dark Side (Written by Eternalised) (11 min, After Skool)
• Humans Are Smart. Why Are Babies So Dumb? (10 min, Be Smart)
• Neuromarketing: How Companies are Studying your Brain for Profit (57 min, ENDEVR)
• How To Fix Your Negative Patterns - Alain de Botton on Chris Williamson (108 min, The School of Life)
• How Narcissists Took Over the World (23 min, VICE)
• Carl Jung - How to Find Your Soul (written by Eternalised) (11 min, After Skool)
• Unlocking the Truth About the Stanford Prison Experiment| National Geographic (44 min, National Geographic)
• My Life As A Psychopath (54 min, Real Stories)
• How to Escape Mediocrity and Mental Illness - The Road Less Traveled (15 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Psychology of Psychopaths - Predators who Walk Among Us (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Face Your Dark Side - Carl Jung and the Shadow (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why are so Many People Neurotic? - Carl Jung as Therapist (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why Caring What Others Think Breeds Mental Illness (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Stop Being a Coward (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Overcome the Downward Pull of Other People (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung, the Shadow, and the Dangers of Psychological Projection (8 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Psychology of Self-Transformation (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Remain Emotionally Mature in a Crisis (11 min, The School of Life)
• Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung's Method of Self-Development - The Path of Individuation (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why are So Many Men Psychologically Infantile? (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung - Inferiority Complexes and the Superior Self (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Turn Your Mind from an Enemy to an Ally (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Problem of Anger - How to Use the Power of Your Dark Side (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung and the Spiritual Problem of the Modern Individual (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung - What are the Archetypes? (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung - Love the Enemy Within (Read by Alan Watts) (9 min, After Skool)
• Master Your Own Kingdom - Guy Ritchie & Joe Rogan (12 min, After Skool)
• Superpower laughter - How humor makes us strong (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Britain's Challenging Children (48 min, Real Stories)
• Carl Jung - How Life Changes After 40 (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Stop Being a Slave to the Opinions of Other People (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Using a Second Self to Promote Self-Transformation (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Solitude and Self-Realization: Why You Should Spend More Time Alone (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Rapid Personality Change and the Psychological Rebirth (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Alain de Botton on A THERAPEUTIC JOURNEY (70 min, The School of Life)
• The Psychology of Narcissism - A Modern Epidemic (19 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why Lying to Yourself is Ruining Your Life (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Fortify the Mind in Times of Crisis (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Carl Jung: What is the Individuation Process? (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Edward Bernays and Group Psychology: Manipulating the Masses (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Psychology of Conformity (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Existential Psychotherapy: Death, Freedom, Isolation, Meaninglessness (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Introduction to Carl Jung - Individuation, the Persona, the Shadow, and the Self (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why is the VICTIM Mindset So Attractive? - Baggage Claim (11 min, After Skool)
• FIXED Mindset vs. GROWTH Mindset - Mike Rashid (12 min, After Skool)
• HISTORY OF IDEAS - Loneliness (8 min, The School of Life)
• Carl Jung and The Achievement of Personality (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Altruism Revolution | Human Nature Documentary | Full Documentaries (54 min, Moconomy)
• Unraveling the Notorious Stanford Prison Experiment (133 min, National Geographic)
• What Does 10 Days of Isolation Do to Your Brain and Body? (52 min, Spark)
• PSYCHOTHERAPY - Jacques Lacan (8 min, The School of Life)
• Why is Modern Man so Weak and Powerless? - Carl Jung (18 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Psychology of Malignant Narcissists - People of the Lie (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Change Your Attitude to Change Your Life (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Outsider's Guide to the Social World (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Psychology of Alfred Adler: Superiority, Inferiority, and Courage (9 min, Academy of Ideas)

Top-Rated Books About Psychology

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
2. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
3. Quiet by Susan Cain (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
4. Influence by Robert B. Cialdini (4/5) - View on Amazon
5. The psychology of money by Henry Clay Lindgren (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
6. Dark Psychology by Modern Psychology Publishing (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
7. The Psychology of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
8. Abnormal Psychology by Gerald C. Davison (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
9. Psychology by Robert A. Baron (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
10. Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
11. Educational Psychology by Robert E. Slavin (4.9/5) - View on Amazon
12. Feminine Psychology by Karen Horney (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
13. Developmental psychology by Elizabeth Bergner Hurlock (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
14. The world of psychology by Samuel E. Wood (3.5/5) - View on Amazon
15. Psychology of adjustment and human relationships by James F. Calhoun (4.8/5) - View on Amazon
16. Publication Manual of the American Psycological Association by American Psychological Association. (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
17. Cognitive psychology by Robert L. Solso (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
18. A Primer of Freudian Psychology by Calvin S. Hall (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
19. Social psychology by Robert A. Baron - View on Amazon
20. An Approach to environmental psychology by Albert Mehrabian (4.8/5) - View on Amazon
21. Cognitive psychology and its implications by John Robert Anderson (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
22. Psychology principles in practice by Spencer A. Rathus - View on Amazon
23. Introduction to psychology by Rod Plotnik - View on Amazon
24. Manipulation and Dark Psychology : Manipulation and Dark Psychology by Mark Evans - View on Amazon