Feeling Great: A New High-Speed Treatment for Depression – David Burns

Outline

First segment: Resistance Revisited

• Why does therapy fail?
• What is TEAM Therapy?
• The eight most common forms of resistance
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • relationship problems
  • habits and addictions
• What happens when you ignore resistance?
• What happens when you address resistance?

Second segment: The Anatomy of a Miracle

• Karen tells her story: “I’m a failure as a mother.”
  • video clips illustrating symptom severity at the start and end of the session
• How to melt away resistance
  • Invitation
  • Magic Button
  • Positive Reframing
  • Pivot Question
  • Magic Dial

Third Segment: How to Trigger Rapid Change at the Gut Level

• How to crush negative thoughts
  • Video clips illustrating
    • Explain the distortions
    • Externalization of Voices
    • Self-Defense vs. Acceptance Paradox
    • Survey Technique
• Your questions
  • Were these changes real?
  • Will they last?
  • Is rapid recovery rare?

Fourth Segment: Healing yourself

• The negative thoughts of therapists
• Positive Reframing
• Externalization of Voices
  • Self-Defense Paradigm
  • Acceptance Paradox
  • Counter-Attack Technique (CAT)
• Live demonstration with audience volunteers

Fifth Segment: Process Resistance

• How to address process resistance for depression
  • Dangling the Carrot
  • Gentle Ultimatum
  • Sitting with Open Hands
  • Fallback position
• Live demonstration with two audience volunteers
  • Questions:
    • What to do when the patient says “I’ll try”
    • What to do when your patient “fails” / “forgets” to do psychotherapy homework
    • Therapist resistance

Sixth Segment

• Bibliotherapy: Does it really make a difference?
• How to improve your clinical results
• From Feeling Good to Feeling Great!
• Q and A