I watched Paw Patrol: The Movie because I have a four year old I love. In it, the police puppy Chase was scared of jumping over a gaping chasm between two buildings, so his owner the boy Ryder encourages him by telling him he's the bravest dog he knows, and that type of thing. In the movie, this bit of cheerleading works, and the puppy makes the leap, performs extraordinary feats with his high opinion of himself restored.
What David Burns argues in Feeling Great, which I find so radical, is that in this situation:
- The cheerleading wouldn't really work. For one thing, the puppy knows that's a ridiculous claim. How is he
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Hi Steven, I like both your review of the book and your interesting speculation on the neuroscience. Here's the PDF of a book written by a neuroscientist, Dr. Mark Noble, on the neuroscience behind this approach of doing cognitive behaviour therapy, if you're interested. Your review of this book was done so well that I didn't have to review it again, but could just link to it, and then riff on what I found particularly interesting for my own review of this same book.