012: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 3)

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

David Burns, MD

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🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Discuss of "Should" Statements, Labeling, and Blame. Dr. Burns brings these distortions to life with a case of a severely depressed woman who felt profoundly guilty and devastated after her brother’s tragic suicide.

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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 of psychiatry
0:40.9	at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
0:44.8	All right, so we're going to probably finish with the cognitive distortions today.
0:52.0	And what's the next one, David? Well, we're going to do should statements, labeling,
0:58.4	and blame. And we'll start out with should statements. Okay. And I think almost everyone can
1:03.9	identify with the damage we do to ourselves and others with should statements.
1:18.5	There are self-directed shoulds that create guilt, shame, inadequacy, things like that,
1:25.0	and then other directed should statements that create frustration as well as anger.
1:28.6	Yeah. Who is it who said that? Aren't you tired of being should upon?
1:29.6	Yeah, that's right.
1:32.4	That would probably Albert Ellis would have said something like that.
1:36.3	We use shoulds, oughts, and must have. I shouldn't have said that.
1:38.3	I shouldn't have screwed up, that type of thing.
1:41.3	Very, very common.
1:44.0	An example from that early in my clinical work, I treated a very
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