Ep 76: David Burns on Melting Resistance

Welcome to Episode # 76 of The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast the show designed to help you reduce the leverage that alcohol has in your life and your relationships. Today’s guest is David D. Burns the author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, a book that has sold well over five million copies in America, alone. David is an adjunct clinical professor emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Stanford. He is the Gandalf of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). In this episode, David and I talk about the role that tears and laughter play in therapy, Resistance and some tips and techniques to melt it, the importance of developing metrics to understand if therapy is working, relapse prevention, the human condition, how a cat taught him about low self esteem, and much more. Podcast Takeaways Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0380810336) The Feeling Good Podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/feeling-good-podcast/id1171155453?mt=2) David D. Burns Website (https://feelinggood.com/about/) The World Transformation Movement (https://www.humancondition.com/) David D. Burns Ted Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1T5uMeYv9Q) 10 Days to Great Self-Esteem by David D. Burns (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0091825628) Overcoming Low-Self Esteem by Melanie Fennell (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472119290) Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1405159294) Outro Thanks for listening. If you want to help support the Alcohol & Addiction Podcast; keep it free of sponsors and adverts, and to help me focus on helping people reduce the leverage alcohol has on their lives on a full time basis, then please join the Needy Helper Hub Movement. You can find details at www.needyhelper.com. If you find the AA Podcast a valuable resource, then please subscribe on iTunes, tell your friends about it and share the love. You would make me a very happy man indeed if you could rate us on iTunes.