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011: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 2)
Episode 11
Three common distortions: Jumping to Conclusions (including Mind-Reading and Fortune-Telling), Magnification and Minimization (also called the Binocu…
9 years, 7 months ago
010: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 1)
Episode 10
Common thought distortions that trigger negative feelings: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Overgeneralization, Mental Filter, and Discounting the Positive.
9 years, 7 months ago
009: Should I Try to Be Happy All the Time? Healthy vs. Unhealthy Emotions
Episode 9
When we're feeling depressed, anxious, or angry, should we accept our feelings or try to change them?
9 years, 7 months ago
008: M = Methods (Part 2) — You Can CHANGE the Way You FEEL
Episode 8
A session with a severely depressed, suicidal, hospitalized woman with rapidly cycling bipolar illness, who'd had 15 years of failed treatment with d…
9 years, 7 months ago
007: M = Methods (Part 1) — You FEEL the Way You THINK
Episode 7
The three basic principles of CBT:
Negative feelings, like depression, anxiety, and anger, do not result from what happens to us, but rather from ou…9 years, 7 months ago
006: Ask David — Identity Crisis; Finding a CBT Therapist; Love Me the Way I Am
Episode 6
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 trai…9 years, 7 months ago
005: A = Agenda Setting (Part 2) — How to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance: "Dr. Burns, I think I need help with my low self-esteem!"
Episode 5
Dr. Burns suddenly abandons the role of healer and instead assumes the role of the patient's angry, paranoid and defiant resistance.
9 years, 7 months ago
004: A = Agenda Setting (Part 1) —The Eight Most Common Forms of Therapeutic Resistance
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 wri…
9 years, 7 months ago
003: E = Empathy — Does It Really Make a Difference?
How an encounter with a patient with paranoid schizophrenia dramatically changed the course of his career The 5 Secrets of Effective Communication H…
9 years, 8 months ago
002: T = Testing — A Boring Topic with Exciting Implications
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 ac…9 years, 8 months ago