009: Should I Try to Be Happy All the Time? Healthy vs. Unhealthy Emotions
When we're feeling depressed, anxious, or angry, should we accept our feelings or try to change them?
15 Marras 201631min
008: M = Methods (Part 2) — You Can CHANGE the Way You FEEL
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.
12 Marras 201633min
007: M = Methods (Part 1) — You FEEL the Way You THINK
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 tho...
9 Marras 201634min
006: Ask David — Identity Crisis; Finding a CBT Therapist; Love Me the Way I Am
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...
6 Marras 201625min
005: A = Agenda Setting (Part 2) — How to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance: "Dr. Burns, I think I need help with my low self-esteem!"
Dr. Burns suddenly abandons the role of healer and instead assumes the role of the patient's angry, paranoid and defiant resistance.
3 Marras 201636min
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 writings of Sigmund Freud! You will also discover why ...
31 Loka 20161h 3min
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 How to talk with your EAR Dr. Burns also discusses w...
29 Loka 201639min
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 accuracy at Stanford Why therapists who don't test us...
28 Loka 201643min
