David’s Upcoming Trauma Workshop
Exciting news! I will make a three-city east coast swing in April presenting my two-day workshop on trauma treatment. This workshop features a live demonstration with an audience volunteer who has been struggling with depression and anxiety as the result of trauma. It...
Is Happiness a Distortion?
Hi Dr. David Burns, I am confused about the idea that depression and anxiety result from distorted thoughts. For example, you say that anxiety always results from the distortion called Fortune Telling—making unrealistic negative predictions that something terrible is...
028: Scared Stiff — The Motivational Model (Part 6)
In this Podcast, David and Fabrice discuss the fourth powerful model in the treatment of anxiety—the Motivational Model. The key here is bringing the patient’s subconscious resistance to conscious awareness, and melting it away with paradoxical techniques. This is...
How to Find Your “True Calling” in Life!
Dear David, First of all, I would like to tell you that using the methods in your many wonderful books has changed my life!! I have a question and it would be great to get your input. I work as a team leader/software engineer in a software company. I like my...
Feature Article on TEAM-CBT
Hi everyone, CLICK HERE to link to my cover feature on TEAM-CBT in the current issue of Psychotherapy Networker. I hope you enjoy it, and comment, too, if you are interested! David
027: Scared Stiff — The Hidden Emotion Model (Part 5)
Fabrice launches this Podcast by asking David to remind us about the differences between healthy fear and unhealthy, neurotic anxiety, or an anxiety “disorder” like a phobia, or OCD, and so forth. David explains that negative thoughts, and not events, trigger all our...
What if the People Around Me are Not Real?
Hi Dr. Burns, I have read your book, Feeling Good, and now I’m reading your more recent book, When Panic Attacks. I done a Cost-Benefit analysis for one of my negative thoughts and that helped me greatly. I also found some cognitive distortions in my negative thoughts...
Is it Possible to be Happy All the Time?
A frequent web visitor commented on a blogger who said that the propensity to feel depressed or anxious never really leaves a person. He asked if I agreed with this. Here’s the answer. I am convinced that being flawed and having moments of irritability,...
Some Nice Endorsements
Hi web visitors, I have received some very kind comments recently, and wanted to share a couple of them them with you! I hope it won’t sound like excessive self-promotion. Be assured I occasionally get some harsh and disturbing emails as well from individuals...