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

011: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 2)

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

4.4856 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Three common distortions: Jumping to Conclusions (including Mind-Reading and Fortune-Telling), Magnification and Minimization (also called the Binocular Trick), and Emotional Reasoning.

Transcript

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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. He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor

0:40.0

of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Okay, so we're going to

0:46.5

continue on the distortions today. And so last time we ended with the mental filtering and discounting the positive.

0:56.6

You even touched a little bit on the discounting negative.

0:59.0

Maybe you'll want to say something about that.

1:01.9

But we're going to continue with other cognitive distortions.

1:05.8

So I'm going to turn it over to you.

1:08.5

Okay.

1:09.2

Yeah, that's great.

1:11.6

Yeah, just one more example of discounting the negative.

1:16.6

We often do that when we're criticized.

1:19.6

That would be the positive distortion.

1:22.6

Right.

1:23.6

Is discounting the negative.

1:24.6

And so, let's say you're criticized that there's a human

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