Mdedge Psychcast

 Show Notes Last week, Igor Galynker, MD, PhD, spoke with Lorenzo Norris, MD, host of the MDedge Psychcast and editor in chief of MDedge Psychiatry, about how to identify suicide crisis syndrome. This week, he explores the kinds of “gut feelings” that clinicians can access to help them identify when a patient might have the syndrome.   Dr. Galynker has been a guest on the Psychcast twice before, once to discuss the impact of suicide on physicians and a second time to talk about his research on the arguments for adding a suicide-specific diagnosis to the DSM-5. He is associate chairman for research in the department of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York. In addition, Dr. Galynker is founder and director of the Richard and Cynthia Zirinsky Center for Bipolar Disorder, and professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine, both at Mount Sinai. Later, Renee Kohanski, MD, discusses the ability of psychiatrists to help patients realize that they can choose what matters in their lives. Dr. Koha