Dr David Burns: Exposure, and the hidden emotion model (#313)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In episode 313 I chat with Dr David Burns. David is a psychiatrist, and is currently Adjunct Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the author of the best-selling book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, as well as many other books, including the more recent book Feeling Great. David also developed the therapy TEAM-CBT.
We discuss his therapy story, his own journey with anxiety, he tells plenty of stories to illustrate this, we discuss motivation for doing exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), he gives client case examples, the hidden emotion model, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.2 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.0 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:21.5 | And welcome to episode 313 of the podcast. And in this one I got on |
| 0:26.4 | Dr David Burns. I wanted to get David on the show for a while so it's good to finally get him on. |
| 0:31.6 | David is a psychiatrist and is currently adjunct clinical |
| 0:35.2 | professor Emeritus of a psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University |
| 0:40.2 | School of Medicine. He's also author of the best-selling book Feeling Good, as well as many other books including the more recent book Feeling Great. |
| 0:49.0 | David has also developed the therapy team CBT. |
| 0:52.0 | In this we discuss his own therapy journey, so how he became to do the work that he does. |
| 0:57.0 | We talk about his own challenges with anxiety. He tells plenty of stories to illustrate this, as well as we discuss motivation for doing exposure and response prevention therapy |
| 1:07.2 | He gives client case examples to illustrate this we discuss the hidden emotion model, and much more. |
| 1:14.3 | So I really enjoy this conversation with David. |
| 1:16.4 | So David does have some unique perspectives |
| 1:18.8 | and different ways of looking at things. |
| 1:21.0 | Some of this may not resonate with you and some of it may. |
| 1:23.7 | So just pick what works for you and if it doesn't, that's okay too. |
| 1:27.4 | But I wanted to share some different perspectives |
| 1:30.3 | as part of the growth of the podcast. |
| 1:32.6 | And the other thing, more of a pre-warning, |
| 1:35.6 | he does use the word cure, that's his choice. |
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