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

440: Who is the REAL David?

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

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Getting to Know David

David Answers Personal Questions!

We all know David Burns as the creator of TEAM-CBT, but not many people get to know David, the person. It is fun to know David the person, because he is just like all of us. He is a real person (not a robot), full of life and love.

I want everyone in our audience to be able to relate to David on a deeper level, to feel a sense of connection with him, and hopefully for all of us to build our sense of community with each other. Thanks so much to Stan Dickens, TEAM UK, for submitting these questions and sparking this discussion. The complete list of questions was much longer, but I (Rhonda) have selected the ones listed below.

I hope you like listening to this podcast, Rhonda

The questions are not necessarily in the order listed below, but all are answered on this podcast. David’s answers are all 100% spontaneous, and you will hear them on the podcast!

Music & Entertainment

1.  Which band do you like most, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? (David, please say The Beatles!)

2.  Following on from that, what kind of music do you listen to? Can you tell us about some of your favorite musicians, bands, or composers?

Here are some links to just a few of a great many favorite songs of mine. David

3.  If your life were turned into a film, who would play you?

4.  Can you speak with an English accent? Would you be brave enough to give it a try right now?

Career & Professional Reflections

5.  If you hadn’t dedicated your life to cognitive behavioral therapy and mental health or authored Feeling Good, what might you have done instead?

6. Is there a common misconception about you or your work that you’d like to clear up?

Personal Insights & Philosophy

7.  If you could have dinner with three historical or modern figures, dead or alive, who would it be and why?

8.  If you could give your younger self just one piece of advice, what would it be?

9.  How did you meet Melanie, and what do you love most about her?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast, where you can learn powerful techniques

0:11.6

to change the way you feel. I am your host, Dr. Rhonda Borovsky, and joining me here in the

0:16.8

Murrieta studio is Dr. David Burns. Dr. Burns is a pioneer in the development of

0:22.3

cognitive behavioral therapy and the creator of the new team therapy. He's the author of Feeling

0:27.4

Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States and has been translated into over 30

0:33.2

languages. His latest book, Feeling Great, contains powerful new techniques that make rapid recovery possible for many people

0:40.8

struggling with depression and anxiety.

0:43.4

Dr. Burns is currently an emeritus adjunct professor of clinical psychiatry

0:47.6

at Stanford University School of Medicine.

0:49.8

Thank you.

1:04.5

Lou. Hi, David.

1:12.4

And welcome to our listeners around the country, around the world, and throughout the galaxy, this is the Feeling Good podcast, and we are up to episode 440. So welcome, everyone, and hi, David. Hi. I'm forward to today's podcast, but it's going to be a fun one,

1:22.0

maybe. I am looking forward to it, too. I'm really excited about it. It's an Ask David, but it's an Ask David about David so that all of your listeners can get to know you better.

1:33.3

And we got a bunch of questions from somebody in our Wednesday group, Stan.

1:39.1

I don't know if he wants me to say his last name, Stan Dickens, I said it anyway.

1:42.6

And Stan is also a beloved member of the Team

1:45.3

UK, Team in the United Kingdom group. So I thought, I think it's a really great idea to ask you

1:53.2

questions to get to know you. And I thought I'd start with a really simple endorsement that just

1:59.5

speaks to the heart of Team CBT.

2:03.6

I don't know if she wants me to say her first name, so I'm going to say that her name is Gertie.

2:10.0

And she wrote, hello, Rhonda, and Dr. Burns.

2:12.9

I just want to say thank you again.

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