This podcast features David D. Burns MD, author of "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy," describing powerful new techniques to overcome depression and anxiety and develop greater joy and self-esteem. For therapists and the general public alike!
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Practically all of us have a friend, colleague, client, customer or family member we aren't getting along with very well. Perhaps the difficult person in your life is excessively critical of you, complains constantly, won't express his or her feelings, always has to be right, or never listens to you. Does anyone come to mind? In this podcast, David and Fabrice discuss five communication secrets that can rapidly transform conflict and misunderstanding into intimacy and trust. David describes an e...
A fan points out that many of the examples in David's book, When Panic Attacks , are high functioning individuals with lots of education and good jobs. She asks Dr. Burns if depression and anxiety are inevitable among people who are poorly educated and without many assets. Dr. Burns again addresses the ancient but persistent question of whether our suffering results from the actual problems in our lives, or rather by our distorted thoughts about them.
Discuss of " Should" Statements , Labeling , and Blame . Dr. Burns brings these distortions to life with a case of a severely depressed woman who felt profoundly guilty and devastated after her brother's tragic suicide.
Three common distortions: Jumping to Conclusions (including Mind-Reading and Fortune-Telling ), Magnification and Minimization (also called the Binocular Trick), and Emotional Reasoning .
A session with a severely depressed, suicidal, hospitalized woman with rapidly cycling bipolar illness, who'd had 15 years of failed treatment with drugs and psychotherapy.
The three basic principles of CBT: Negative feelings, like depression, anxiety, and anger, do not result from what happens to us, but rather from our thoughts about what's happening. In fact, our thoughts, or "cognitions," create all of our emotions, positive and negative. When you're depressed or anxious, the negative thoughts that trigger your distress, like " I'm no good ," or " Things will never change ," are distorted or illogical. In fact, depression is the world's oldest con. When you cha...
Responses to questions submitted by listeners: What causes an "identity crisis?" And how do you treat it? Why is it so hard to find a therapist trained in cognitive therapy? In a relationship, should you change yourself in order to get along with someone?
What is therapeutic resistance? You will find out that therapeutic resistance is NOT what you were taught in graduate school or read about in the writings of Sigmund Freud! You will also discover why overcoming therapeutic resistance can be the key to high-speed, dramatic recovery for many depressed and anxious individuals.
How an encounter with a patient with paranoid schizophrenia dramatically changed the course of his career The 5 Secrets of Effective Communication How to talk with your EAR Dr. Burns also discusses what therapists can do when you are angry with a patient you don't like a patient or when a patient is angry with you
In this podcast, Dr. David Burns describes the "Testing" part of the T.E.A.M. model. Topics include: The shocking results of a study of therapist accuracy at Stanford Why therapists who don't test usually get it wrong How session-by-session testing can revolutionize your practice
In this inaugural episode, Drs. Fabrice Nye and David Burns introduce the TEAM model, an evolution of traditional cognitive therapy. Dr. Burns recounts the origins of CBT, the success of his book "Feeling Good," and the challenges with patients who don't respond to standard methods. They explain how TEAM therapy identifies and addresses therapeutic resistance, a major factor in treatment failure, leading to potentially rapid and profound changes.
