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...
Where Can I Find Your books?
Hi Dr. Burns, Hello I was wondering do you still have the feel mood therapy workbook they no longer sell them in store or online and I’m a person that retain information if I can write will I’m reading, because I have the book and I’m not retaining...
The Placebo Effect
Hi web visitors, Recently I have referred to the fact that many of the current schools of therapy have only a placebo effect in the treatment of depression and anxiety, and this has drawn some skeptical, and arguably angry, responses from a couple visitors to the...
What’s the Best School of Psychotherapy?
Hi Dr. Burns, “I am a psychology graduate student and I need some advice. One of my professors urged all the students in our class to find the school of therapy that ‘fit us.’ How can I select the school of therapy that would provide the best fit for me? And what is...
Photos from Our Sunday Hike
Hi web visitors, I am attaching eight photos from this week’s Sunday hike, which included two hail storms. I hope you like the photos! One of our newest Tuesday group members, Maryam, took them. As you can see, spring is in full swing here already. There is so...