Why? Because he knows their deepest insecurity as professionals: that week in, week out, many are failing to help their patients in a profound and lasting way. To Burns, their reasons don't matter he's determined to help them become better therapists. Others need continuing education credits to maintain their licenses. The author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, one of the most successful psychotherapy books ever written, he's had 35,000 therapy sessions with depressed and anxious patients and as many as 50,000 therapists have attended his training programs over the past 35 years. Some of the therapists have come because they want to hear what Burns has to say. It's part of Scared Stiff!-a two-day seminar on fast, drug-free treatment for anxiety and depression that Burns, MD '70, is giving in a nondescript hotel ballroom outside Chicago. Uncomfortable, nervous laughter breaks out among the 100 psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and family and marriage counselors watching the scene unfold on a large video screen. "What's the most strenuous exercise you could do? Jumping jacks? Running in place?" Burns calmly asks, "Do you think you could exercise strenuously right now?" Terri doesn't know she just feels so bad. Listening to this, Stanford psychiatrist David D. She says she can't breathe her lungs are about to collapse her heart is about to stop. She is sobbing, panicking, overwhelmed by anxiety.