What we’ve said about CBT

“And what I see, especially as a clinician, is depression isn't that you're more realistic. Depression is a huge negative bias. And when you hear patients talk about things, There's a rose-colored glasses of negativity”

“Where you see it the most baked in is our psychotherapy concepts. So time-limited modalities are really drawing on the earlier insights. You know, CBT itself grows from an analytically trained therapist”

“a lot of what people just consider to be psychotherapy today i would argue is really a form of ego psychology because cbt uh cognitive behavioral therapies for the most part especially ones that aim to identify bring insight into and teach various quote skills it's ego psychology”

“If a patient can engage in therapy, I think that they should be engaged in therapy before medications. When do I use medications first? First, if they're too symptomatic, that they're not able to engage in therapy. And second, patient autonomy”

“The Happiness Trap is a little bit lighter. It's acceptance and commitment therapy, which to me is like a lighter, easier, breezier form of CBT”

“You should follow up with the patient's experience of the mindfulness, what it was like for them when they tried, or what happened that caused them not to try, even if they remembered, or did they not schedule at all, do they keep a calendar at all, all the basic CBT homework stuff”

“You negotiate a plan based on not this is true or that is true, but well, let's find out. So you You can you have your natural behavioral experiments that will show you how risky is it for you to stay up until two and have a couple of beers with your friends”

“it works you know and it may be limited in some places i think it's not suitable for most people who are anywhere even slightly below healthy neurotic range of personality functioning”

“ERP differs from CBT because OCD is not a thinking problem because the issue isn't what the person's thinking. The issue is how the brain is responding to the thoughts”