119: Self-Defeating Beliefs (Part 2) — Can You Change Them?

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David Burns, MD

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How can you get rid of Self-Defeating Beliefs?

Although any of the 100 + TEAM-CBT methods can be used to modify an SDB, four methods will be highlighted in today's show.

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Semantic Method
Experimental Technique
Feared Fantasy

For more information on how to change SDBs, you might want to watch the extremely popular David and Jill FB Live show on Overcoming Perfectionism (recorded on November 11, 2018).

What research has been done on SDBs?

This topic was not discussed in the show, but individuals with an interest in research might want to read David’s study with Dr. Jackie Persons on the causal connections between depression and SDBs about dependency (attachment) as well as achievement (perfectionism) in several hundred patients in Philadelphia during the first 12 weeks of their treatment at David’s clinic.

The study confirmed That both types of SBS were significantly correlated with depression severity at intake and at the 12-week evaluation. In addition, changes in depression were correlated with changes in SDBs. However, a sophisticated statistical analysis with structural equation modeling techniques did not confirm that SDBs had causal effects on depression, or that depression had causal effects on SDBs. Instead, SDBs and feelings of depression appeared to share an unknown common cause.

Persons, J. B., Burns, D. D., Perloff, J. M., & Miranda, J. (1993). Relationships between symptoms of depression and anxiety and dysfunctional beliefs about achievement and attachment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101(4): 518 - 524.

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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 119 of the
0:46.8	Feeling Good Podcast for part two of self-defeating beliefs. Last week, David, you read an email from one of our listeners that pretty much laid out
0:59.3	what we want to talk about today.
1:01.7	We've talked about the self-defeating beliefs and what they are.
1:05.3	Now the question is, what do we do about it?
1:08.3	Do you think you could maybe read that email again?
1:11.6	Well, it was Rajesh, and Rajesh has often sent really good questions.
1:16.2	Yeah, no, Rajesh is a treasure trove of really good questions.
1:20.9	And he asked four questions. Number one, is it possible to change a self-defeating belief, like perfectionism or
1:30.0	achievement addiction or love addiction or whatever it happens to be? Number two, does the mere
1:37.3	knowledge of a self-defeating belief change it? That would be the kind of psychoanalytic idea
1:43.5	that insight might be the most important
1:46.8	factor in change. Number three, how long does it take to change a self-defeating belief? And number
1:54.6	four, how do you change a self-defeating belief? Well, let's take them one at a time.
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