016: Ask David — How can I cope with a complainer? How can I help a loved one who is depressed?

A listener named Daisy describes her despair at being unable to have a baby, despite intensive efforts at a fertility clinic. She gets well-meaning messages from friends, family and support groups tha...

29 Maj 201725min

"My problems are real! The world really IS screwed up! And that's not a distortion. So what can I do about my severe depression and anxiety?" David and Fabrice discuss two questions submitted by Feeli...

22 Maj 201725min

A blog reader made a fairly strong and impassioned comment that sometimes asking the patient to examine ways she or he may be contributing to the problem may be a mistake when the patient really IS a ...

15 Maj 201739min

This is the last live therapy podcast with Mark, the physician who was convinced he was a failure as a father because of his difficulties forming a close, loving relationship with his oldest son. Alth...

8 Maj 201748min

Using the Externalization of Voices, which is arguably the most powerful Cognitive Therapy technique ever created, David & Jill continue encouraging mark to challenge his negative thoughts. The goal o...

1 Maj 201744min

David and Jill begin using M = Methods to challenge the Negative Thought Mark wants to work on first: "There must be something defective in my brain that prevents me from forming a loving relationship...

24 Apr 201749min

Jill and David encourage Mark to develop his list of positives. Mark draws a blank at first. This is very common among patients and therapists alike. Most of us have not been trained to think about de...

17 Apr 201735min

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 Apr 201731min