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EP20 Conversation Hour 01 - From Feeling Good to Feeling Great - David Burns, MD
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Length: 1 hour 01 minutes
Description:
Dr. Burns first book, Feeling Good, introduced cognitive therapy to the world when it was first released in 1980. Various research studies indicate that 50% to 65% of readers seeking treatment for moderate to severe depression improve significantly or recover within four weeks on their own, without any medications or talk therapy, and no longer need treatment.
Dr. Burns’ new book, Feeling Great, is based on 40 years of research on how this cognitive therapy actually works, and more than 40,000 hours of therapy with depressed and anxious individuals, and includes powerful new tools to melt away therapeutic “resistance.” This opens the door to ultra-rapid treatment for the first time.
Educational Objectives:
- Describe the three basic principles of cognitive therapy
- Describe the causes of therapeutic “resistance"
- Explain why depression and anxiety do NOT result from what’s wrong with you, but from what’s RIGHT with you
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
David Burns, MD
David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling books Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook. Burns popularized Aaron T. Beck's cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) when his book became a best seller during the 1980s.
