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082: Neil Sattin Interview — Cognitive Distortions and Relationships

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

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Psychotherapy for Depression - The Groundwork for a Successful Recovery

Usually there's none and and and the page all patients have within them this powerful healing voice. We keep it suppressed because of the resistance thinking we don't want to give up our perfectionism for example. And that's why in all of the psychotherapy outcome studies for depression at least 50% of the patients don't improve much at all. The kinds of reasons we have come up with for resistance are all flattering to the patients. So the we make the patients proud of their symptoms, proud of their resistance and paradoxically when we do that, suddenly they want to change  and then recovery is generally just a matter of minutes away like eight minutes or twelve minutes or something in that range

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