010: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 1)

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns, MD

Clinical, Therapy, Anxiety, Psychotherapy, Depression, Health & Fitness, Cognitive, Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Behavior, Education, Self-improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Addiction, Happiness, Personalgrowth

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🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Common thought distortions that trigger negative feelings: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Overgeneralization, Mental Filter, and Discounting the Positive.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Knight.
0:14.7	And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is Dr. David Burns.
0:19.0	Hi, David.
0:20.0	Hi, Fabrice.
0:23.8	Dr. David Burns has been a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and he is the creator of the new team therapy. He is the author of
0:30.2	Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, and has been translated into
0:35.5	over 20 languages.
0:43.0	He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
0:44.6	So I think our topic today, we're going to look at negative distortions.
0:50.6	And I think we'll just go through the list.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:53.3	And this may take more than one podcast.
0:56.9	Sure, sure.
0:58.3	Well, it's kind of an exciting topic.
1:00.7	Can I give a personal example of it as well?
1:05.5	But by way of just real brief background, we're going to talk today about the cognitive part of the treatment model,
1:15.8	which goes back to Epictetus, the Greek philosopher who said people are disturbed, not by things,
1:25.2	but by the views we take of them.
1:27.4	And we mentioned that previously in the podcast that our thoughts. people are disturbed not by things, but by the views we take of them.
1:34.5	And we mentioned that previously in the podcast, that our thoughts create all of our feelings in the here and now.
1:41.6	It's not what happens to you so much as the messages that you give yourself the interpretations we're making of what's happening to us.
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