104: Ask David — The Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain

In the early days of my career, I (Dr. Burns) would have assumed that Mark definitely wanted to change--after all, he'd been in a lot of pain for a long time, and he came to the session because he wan...

10 Huhti 201731min

After reviewing Mark's scores on the Brief Mood Survey, the Empathy phase of the session unfolds. During this phase of the session, David and Jill will not try to help, rescue, or save Mark. They will...

3 Huhti 201747min

This is the first in a series of podcasts that will feature live therapy. As you listen, you'll have the opportunity to peak behind closed doors to see how TEAM-CBT actually works in a real-world sett...

27 Maalis 201730min

The key is bringing the patient's subconscious resistance to conscious awareness, and melting it away with paradoxical techniques. This is absolutely critical if you are hoping to see a complete elimi...

20 Maalis 201746min

David reminds us about the differences between healthy fear and unhealthy, neurotic anxiety, or an anxiety "disorder" like a phobia, or OCD, and so forth. He explains that negative thoughts, and not e...

13 Maalis 201726min

We begin by describing the three different deaths of the ego that are required for recovery from depression, anxiety, or a relationship conflict, respectively. For depression recovery often results fr...

6 Maalis 201744min

David answers these questions: How do you deal with a patient (or friend) who is boring? How do you deal with a patient (or friend) you don't like? How do you get patients to do their psychotherapy ho...

27 Helmi 201737min

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