115: Healing Addiction with Stephen Pfleiderer

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

4.4 • 856 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fabrice and I were thrilled to interview our dear friend and colleague, Stephen Pfleiderer, who is the first therapist in the world using TEAM-CBT techniques in the treatment of habits and addictions, including

life threatening addictions, like intravenous heroin or meth
marijuana
alcohol
binge eating
procrastination
smoking
internet porn
and more

Stephen begins with his personal story of excessive beer drinking starting in high school through his junior year in college when he hit a personal crisis, telling himself, "My life sucks. I can't live like this. I'm a loser." He decided to enter a 12-step recovery program, which helped tremendously, and eventually joined David's weekly TEAM training group at Stanford because of his dream of becoming a professional addiction therapist and interventionist.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Nye.
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. Welcome to episode 115 of the
0:47.2	Feeling Good podcast. We have a distinguished guest today, Stephen Fleterer and he's going to talk to us
0:53.8	about how to deal with addiction
0:56.0	using the team CBT tools. And we're going to discover Stephen in just a moment. But David,
1:04.3	you have a couple of announcements. Just real, real quick, I have two upcoming conferences that might be of interest to you if you're a
1:13.0	mental health professional, conceivably if you're just a general, interest, a general public person.
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1:34.0	It's a two-day workshop. I'm going to give it twice. On November 29 and 30 in San Francisco,
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1:53.0	That's been one of my most popular workshops ever.
1:58.0	You'll learn tons of techniques for treating anxiety, not just exposure like what
2:03.3	everyone talks about, but tons of powerful methods. And that's sponsored by Pessie. And to
2:10.9	register or to learn more, you can call 800-84-8260.
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