115: Healing Addiction with Stephen Pfleiderer
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy · David Burns, MD
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Show Notes
Fabrice and I were thrilled to interview our dear friend and colleague, Stephen Pfleiderer, who is the first therapist in the world using TEAM-CBT techniques in the treatment of habits and addictions, including
- life threatening addictions, like intravenous heroin or meth
- marijuana
- alcohol
- binge eating
- procrastination
- smoking
- internet porn
- and more
Stephen begins with his personal story of excessive beer drinking starting in high school through his junior year in college when he hit a personal crisis, telling himself, "My life sucks. I can't live like this. I'm a loser." He decided to enter a 12-step recovery program, which helped tremendously, and eventually joined David's weekly TEAM training group at Stanford because of his dream of becoming a professional addiction therapist and interventionist.