Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.

I am your host, Fabrice Nye.

And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is Dr. David Burns.

Hi, David.

Hi, Fabrice.

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

Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, and has been translated into

over 20 languages. He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School

of Medicine.

Welcome to episode 88 of the Feeling Good podcast.

And back again with the Tuesday group, we can't get enough of these guys. We are going to do a little bit more

Fiat fantasy as a role play tonight. David wanted to bring in some added elements. So tonight

with us, we have two wonderful volunteers, Alicia. Hi, Alicia. Hello. And Werner. Hi, Werner.

Hi. And David, I think that besides doing the Feared Fantasy roleplay, you wanted to maybe bring in some downward arrow, which we've talked about in previous episodes.

And also something that intrigues me a little bit because I'm going to discover this technique

with our listeners, which is the anti-brush fire technique.

And I don't know if we've even talked about the British Fire fallacy, but...

No, and I've never written it up either.

Just a technique I've used a lot from time to time in my practice,

particularly for people who fear disapproval.

And there's a couple of beliefs that go into social anxiety.

Yeah.

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