Wonderful Email!
I just wanted to write a quick note to say thank you! 20 years ago (when I was only 15!) I found your book, Feeling Good, at my local bookstore and brought it home with me.
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...
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...