Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
071: Ask David — Expressing Anger, Narcissistic Bosses, Social Media Bullying
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What do I do if I am using the Five Secrets and I feel angry? If I use the Disarming Technique, isn...
070: The Five Secrets (Part 6) — Stroking
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
069: The Five Secrets (Part 5) — "I Feel..." Technique
01 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
068: The Five Secrets (Part 4) — Inquiry
25 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David and Fabrice discuss Inquiry, the third of the Five Secrets of Effective Communication. Inquir...
067: The Five Secrets (Part 3) — Thought and Feeling Empathy
18 Dec 2017
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David addresses a question submitted by a listener after he heard the introductory podcasts on the F...
066: The Five Secrets (Part 2) — Disarming Technique
11 Dec 2017
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David, Helen and Fabrice focus on the Disarming Technique, which is the first of the Five Secrets o...
065: The Five Secrets (Part 1) — Overview
04 Dec 2017
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Is there someone in your life who just won't listen? won't open up? always has to be right? alway...
064: Ask David — Quick Cure for Excessive Worrying!
27 Nov 2017
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How would you treat excessive worrying? a listener asks. David describes a new patient who had stru...
063: Ask David — What’s Good About Hopelessness or Addiction? What Is it to Be a Worthwhile Human Being?
20 Nov 2017
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Is there anything positive about hopelessness or an addiction ? What does it take to be a "worthwhil...
062: Ask David — The Five Secrets of Effective Communication & Psychotherapy Homework
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Will people manipulate you if they catch on to the fact that you're using the Five Secrets of Effec...
061: Ask David — Test Validity, Uncovering the Negative Thoughts, Benefits of Laziness, and More...
06 Nov 2017
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We address a number of excellent questions submitted by listeners: Are the scales on your Brief Mo...
060: Self-Monitoring
30 Oct 2017
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David describes one of the more obscure methods called “Self-Monitoring”. He thinks of it as “...
059: Live Session (Marilyn) — 8-Week Tune-up
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This podcast was recorded eight weeks after the initial session with Marilyn. As you may recall, Mar...
058: Ask David — Third-Wave Therapies & Exposure for OCD
23 Oct 2017
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David and Fabrice begin by reading several incredibly touching reader comments on the live therapy w...
057: Interpersonal Model (Part 4) — "And It's All Your Fault!" The Relationship Journal
16 Oct 2017
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David emphasizes that the goal of the RJ is not simply to learn how to transform troubled, adversari...
056: Interpersonal Model (Part 3) — "And It's All Your Fault!" Interpersonal Decision-Making and Blame Cost-Benefit Analysis
09 Oct 2017
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Bob, a psychiatric resident named was treating a divorced woman who complained bitterly about her ex...
055: Interpersonal Model (Part 2) — "And It's All Your Fault!" Three Basic Assumptions
02 Oct 2017
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David describes the three assumptions of the Interpersonal TEAM Therapy: We cause the very relation...
054: Interpersonal Model (Part 1) — "And It's All Your Fault!" Healing Troubled Relationships
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
First in a series of podcasts on how to transform troubled relationships into loving ones—if that'...
053: Ask David — “I don’t feel like doing it!” Quick Cure for Procrastinators
11 Sep 2017
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A listener named Benjamin asks about procrastination. He wrote: “The live therapy with Marilyn was...
052: Your Responses to the Live Work with Marilyn — Are People Honest in Their Ratings, and Do the Improvements Stick?
04 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The responses to the Marilyn session were extremely positive. At the start of the podcast, Fabrice r...
051: Live Session (Marilyn) — Methods, Relapse Prevention (Part 3)
28 Aug 2017
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Crushing Negative Thoughts In this third and final podcast featuring live therapy with Marilyn, Davi...
050: Live Session (Marilyn) — Agenda Setting (Part 2)
21 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Hidden Side of Depression, Anxiety, Defectiveness, Hopelessness and Rage We nearly always think ...
049: Live Session (Marilyn) — Testing, Empathy (Part 1)
14 Aug 2017
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The Dark Night of the Soul (Part 1) The first live therapy podcasts with Mark (the man who felt like...
048: Relapse Prevention Training
07 Aug 2017
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A reader ask how to handle relapses following recovery from depression. David emphasizes the importa...
047: Tools... not Schools of Therapy
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The title of David's TEAM-CBT eBook for therapists is Tools, Not Schools, of Therapy. David explain...
046: All You Need Is Love... or Do You?
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Beatles tell us that all we need really need is love, and in her famous song, “People,” Barb...
045: More on OCD — Cognitive Flooding
17 Jul 2017
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Fabrice begins with another question on OCD—if you successfully extinguish the symptoms with Expos...
044: Can OCD Be Cured?
10 Jul 2017
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David describes his treatment of a physician with OCD who was tortured by the fear that he would imp...
043: Ask David — The Hidden Emotion Technique for OCD
03 Jul 2017
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Listeners submitted questions on OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder): Is it an organic illness? Are ...
042: Shame-Attacking Exercises
26 Jun 2017
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The late Dr. Albert Ellis developed a technique to help individuals struggling with shyness. It’s ...
041: Uncovering Techniques (Part 3) — The What-If Technique
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The third uncovering technique is called the “What-If” Technique, developed by the late Dr. Albe...
040: Uncovering Techniques (Part 2) — The Interpersonal Downward Arrow
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Roles and the Rules—Psychoanalysis at Warp Speed! Most of us run into conflicts with other peo...
039: Uncovering Techniques (Part 1) — The Individual Downward Arrow
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What are the root causes of depression? Anxiety? Relationship problems? In this, and the next two po...
038: Ask David — Negative Messages from Society
29 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A listener named Daisy describes her despair at being unable to have a baby, despite intensive effor...
037: Ask David — "My negative thoughts aren't distorted!"
22 May 2017
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“My problems are real! The world really IS screwed up! And that’s not a distortion. So what can ...
036: Ask David — Empowering the Victim With the Five Secrets
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A blog reader made a fairly strong and impassioned comment that sometimes asking the patient to exam...
035: Live Session (Mark) — Final Testing, Wrap Up (Part 7)
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the last live therapy podcast with Mark, the physician who was convinced he was a failure as...
034: Live Session (Mark) — Methods Phase, cont'd. (Part 6)
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Using the Externalization of Voices, which is arguably the most powerful Cognitive Therapy technique...
033: Live Session (Mark) — Methods Phase (Part 5)
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David and Jill begin using M = Methods to challenge the Negative Thought Mark wants to work on first...
032: Live Session (Mark) — Agenda Setting Phase (Part 4)
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jill and David encourage Mark to develop his list of positives. Mark draws a blank at first. This is...
031: Live Session (Mark) — Agenda Setting Phase (Part 3)
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early days of my career, I (Dr. Burns) would have assumed that Mark definitely wanted to chan...
030: Live Session (Mark) — Empathy Phase (Part 2)
03 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After reviewing Mark’s scores on the Brief Mood Survey, the Empathy phase of the session unfolds. ...
029: Live Session (Mark) — Introduction & Testing Phase (Part 1)
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This is the first in a series of podcasts that will feature live therapy. As you listen, you’ll ha...
028: Scared Stiff — The Motivational Model (Part 6)
20 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The key is bringing the patient’s subconscious resistance to conscious awareness, and melting it a...
027: Scared Stiff — The Hidden Emotion Model (Part 5)
13 Mar 2017
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David reminds us about the differences between healthy fear and unhealthy, neurotic anxiety, or an a...
026: Scared Stiff — The Exposure Model (Part 4)
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We begin by describing the three different deaths of the ego that are required for recovery from dep...
025: Ask David — How do you handle a patient you don't like (or who bores you)?
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David answers these questions: How do you deal with a patient (or friend) who is boring? How do you...
024: Scared Stiff — The Cognitive Model (Part 3)
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The cognitive model of anxiety is based on three powerful ideas: Anxiety always results from negati...
023: Scared Stiff — What Causes Anxiety? What’s the Cure? (Part 2)
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There are 4 powerful treatment models for anxiety, including The Cognitive Model The Exposure Mode...
022: Scared Stiff — What Is Anxiety? (Part 1)
06 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David and Fabrice answer these questions: What is anxiety? How does it differ from depression? Do a...
021: Ask David — Shameful Sexual Fantasies
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A listener with OCD is plagued with intrusive and shameful sexual fantasies. David discusses his tre...
020: The Truth About Antidepressants?
23 Jan 2017
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Discussion of recent startling and disturbing research studies by Dr. Irving Kirsch and others that ...
019: Ask David — The Defiant Child: A Secret All Parents Should Know
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Can the EAR techniques help a listener deal more effectively with a defiant, oppositional child. Dr....
018: Ask David — Overcoming the Fear of Death
09 Jan 2017
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David and Fabrice address this question submitted by a listener: Dear Dr. Burns, I read Feeling Good...
017: Ask David — Dare to be “average”—The perfectionist’s script for self-defeat
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David answers a challenging question posed by a listener: Dear Dr. David: In your Feeling Good Handb...
016a: Special Interview: Can Depression and Anxiety Be Treated in a Two-Hour Therapy Session? with Lisa Kelley
28 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David and Fabrice are joined by Lisa Kelley, a certified TEAM-CBT therapist and former journalist fr...
016: Ask David — How can I cope with a complainer? How can I help a loved one who is depressed?
26 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How can you help a depressed friend or family member? You may be surprised to discover that the atte...
015: The Five Secrets of Effective Communication (Part 2)
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
If used skillfully, the Five Secrets can resolve nearly any relationship conflict and transform host...
014: The Five Secrets of Effective Communication (Part 1)
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Practically all of us have a friend, colleague, client, customer or family member we aren’t gettin...
013: Ask David — Is Anxiety Inevitable?
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A fan points out that many of the examples in David’s book, When Panic Attacks, are high functioni...
012: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 3)
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Discuss of "Should" Statements, Labeling, and Blame. Dr. Burns brings these distortions to life with...
011: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 2)
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Three common distortions: Jumping to Conclusions (including Mind-Reading and Fortune-Telling), Magni...
010: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 1)
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Common thought distortions that trigger negative feelings: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Overgeneralizati...
009: Should I Try to Be Happy All the Time? Healthy vs. Unhealthy Emotions
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When we’re feeling depressed, anxious, or angry, should we accept our feelings or try to change th...
008: M = Methods (Part 2) — You Can CHANGE the Way You FEEL
12 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A session with a severely depressed, suicidal, hospitalized woman with rapidly cycling bipolar illn...
007: M = Methods (Part 1) — You FEEL the Way You THINK
09 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The three basic principles of CBT: Negative feelings, like depression, anxiety, and anger, do not r...
006: Ask David — Identity Crisis; Finding a CBT Therapist; Love Me the Way I Am
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Responses to questions submitted by listeners: What causes an “identity crisis?” And how do you...
005: A = Agenda Setting (Part 2) — How to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance: “Dr. Burns, I think I need help with my low self-esteem!”
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Dr. Burns suddenly abandons the role of healer and instead assumes the role of the patient’s angry...
004: A = Agenda Setting (Part 1) —The Eight Most Common Forms of Therapeutic Resistance
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What is therapeutic resistance? You will find out that therapeutic resistance is NOT what you were t...
003: E = Empathy — Does It Really Make a Difference?
29 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How an encounter with a patient with paranoid schizophrenia dramatically changed the course of hi...
002: T = Testing — A Boring Topic with Exciting Implications
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this podcast, Dr. David Burns describes the “Testing” part of the T.E.A.M. model. Topics incl...
001: Introduction to the TEAM Model
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this podcast, Drs. Fabrice Nye and David Burns discuss an exciting breakthrough in psychotherapy....