449: Stories from My Hippy Days, Part 2

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David Burns, MD

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Stories from My Hippy Days, Part 2

Featuring David and Rhonda

A year or more ago we did a Part 1 podcast on stories from my days as a Stanford Medical student in the late 1960s. This was the Hippy Era and the famous “Summer of Love.”

A young man, Clyde, recently asked if we’d do Part 2, since we didn’t get to all the stories the first time around. As an aside, there are more stories, so if you like them, we’d be happy to do a Part 3 as well.

1. Husain Chung and the crazy teen from LA: When a stallion wants to run, you run with the stallion!”

2. A frightening encounter with Vic Lovell: And a mentor’s advice on how to handle it.

3. Bar next to the Free University Coffee House: Outrageous works, even with the Hell’s Angels.

4. The bearded man on the quad near the Stanford Student Union—Telling me to “sit with open hands”

5. Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters walked into the Stanford Student Union—they were dressed in pajamas or clown outfits and Neil Cassady was juggling hammers.

6. The tape recorder experiment: Bizarre week, unexpected conclusion.

7. Encounter at the Medical School: “Psychiatry and Psychotherapy—Are they Relevant or Obsolete?” Featuring Hussain Chung

8. Missing the medical school graduation ceremony: Didn’t pick up my diploma until years later.

9. Homeless in Carmel Valley: Saved by Ramadan, Subud and Bapak.

Thanks for tuning in today! And keep your requests, questions, and feedback coming. Your satisfaction and happiness are our top goals!

Rhonda and David

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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
0:39.3	possible for many people struggling with depression and anxiety. Dr. Burns is currently an emeritus
0:45.2	adjunct professor of clinical psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine.
0:53.1	Hello, Rhonda.
0:55.5	Hello, David.
0:56.9	And welcome to all of our listeners around the world, around the galaxy.
1:00.6	This is the Feeling Good podcast, and we're at episode 449.
1:04.9	We had such great feedback for a different episode that we did with you, David.
1:10.1	I think it was episode 440,
1:12.5	where I asked you personal questions that we decided to do it again and ask you even more
1:20.0	personal questions because it's really fun to get to know you. And you have such funny stories.
1:26.1	Do you want to give our listeners a summary of what they're going to hear today?
1:29.8	Yeah, we, about a year, year and a half ago, I did part one and what I thought would be a series
1:36.9	of personal stories from the 60s. And we got through about half of them and and nobody requested the second half, so I figured
1:45.6	people weren't interested.
1:47.4	But a young man named Clyde emailed and said, when are we going to hear part two of those
1:52.8	great stories?
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