
024: Scared Stiff — The Cognitive Model (Part 3)
The cognitive model of anxiety is based on three powerful ideas: Anxiety always results from negative thought (NTs) that involve the prediction of danger. For example, if you have public speaking anx...
20 Helmi 201751min

023: Scared Stiff — What Causes Anxiety? What's the Cure? (Part 2)
There are 4 powerful treatment models for anxiety, including The Cognitive Model The Exposure Model The Motivational Model The Hidden Emotion Model Each approach has a completely different theory ab...
13 Helmi 201723min

022: Scared Stiff — What Is Anxiety? (Part 1)
David and Fabrice answer these questions: What is anxiety? How does it differ from depression? Do anxiety and depression always go hand in hand? How does anxiety differ from healthy fear? What are th...
6 Helmi 201728min

021: Ask David — Shameful Sexual Fantasies
A listener with OCD is plagued with intrusive and shameful sexual fantasies. David discusses his treatment strategies for a young man from Argentina who was struggling with forbidden fantasies of Jesu...
30 Tammi 201716min

020: The Truth About Antidepressants?
Discussion of recent startling and disturbing research studies by Dr. Irving Kirsch and others that suggest that the chemicals called "antidepressants" may, in reality, have few or no true antidepress...
23 Tammi 201732min

019: Ask David — The Defiant Child: A Secret All Parents Should Know
Can the EAR techniques help a listener deal more effectively with a defiant, oppositional child. Dr. Burns reveals a fantastically helpful secret that he and his wife stumbled across in raising their ...
16 Tammi 201724min

018: Ask David — Overcoming the Fear of Death
David and Fabrice address this question submitted by a listener: Dear Dr. Burns, I read Feeling Good twenty years ago. It was a wonderful relief and help to me. Your book has helped me live a better a...
9 Tammi 201710min

017: Ask David — Dare to be "average"—The perfectionist's script for self-defeat
David answers a challenging question posed by a listener: Dear Dr. David: In your Feeling Good Handbook, you suggest that the reader just allows himself or herself to be an ordinary person instead of ...
2 Tammi 201723min





















