Episode 50: Dr. Mark Goulston - Surgical Empathy *Suicide prevention techniques and making sure to ask the right questions

In this episode, Dr. Mark Goulston talks about how to spot potentially suicidal people and how to ask the right questions to help prevent suicide.

About Mark:

Dr. Mark Goulston is an international speaker, executive coach, consultant, advisor and confidant to founders, entrepreneurs and leaders. He has been a UCLA professor of psychiatry for twenty plus years and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a former FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer and the inventor and developer of Surgical Empathy, a process he used for twenty-five years to prevent all his suicidal patients from dying by suicide and that he now uses to unlock and unblock his clients from counterproductive habits and behaviors from their inside out and frees them to replace them with productive alternatives so they can fulfill their potential.

 

He is a best-selling author or co-author of nine books with his book, “Just Listen,” translated into twenty-seven languages becoming the top book on listening in the world. His HBR Ideacast episode, “Become a Better Listener,” has been their #1 Ranked episode for three years. He was the co-creator and moderator of the multi-honored documentary, Stay Alive: An Intimate Conversation about Suicide Prevention. He hosts the “My Wakeup Call” podcast and the LinkedIn Live program, “No Strings Attached.” He is a Founding Member of the Newsweek Executive Forum and frequently sought-after subject area expert on human psychology and behavior on all media platforms. His latest book is, Why Cope When You Can Heal? How Healthcare Heroes of Covid-19 can Recover from PTSD.

https://markgoulston.com/