027: Scared Stiff — The Hidden Emotion Model (Part 5)
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 Mar 201726min
026: Scared Stiff — The Exposure Model (Part 4)
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 Mar 201744min
025: Ask David — How do you handle a patient you don't like (or who bores you)?
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 Feb 201737min
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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 201732min
