Reimagining Medicine Through Positive Psychology

✅ Episode Summary

🎙 Guest: Dr. Jordyn Feingold, MD, MAPP, MSCR

• Psychiatrist, Well-being researcher
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Mount Sinai
• Fellow in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia/Cornell
• Co-author of Choose Growth
• Developer of the PEERS program, teaching Positive Psychology to medical trainees

🎯 Topic Focus:
How Dr. Feingold is infusing Positive Psychology into psychiatric practice, medical education, and clinician well-being. A deep dive into human flourishing, character strengths, the “reversible cape” model, and building more human-centered healthcare systems.

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🎥 Episode Title:

REIMAGINING MEDICINE THROUGH POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

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✍️ Episode Description

🌿 What if medicine didn’t just treat illness—but helped us thrive?

In this transformative episode of *Being in Medicine*, we sit down with psychiatrist and well-being researcher Dr. Jordyn Feingold to explore how Positive Psychology is reshaping psychiatry, medical education, and clinician well-being. From the origins of the PEERS program to her clinical use of character strengths, Dr. Feingold shares practical strategies for healing ourselves and our healthcare systems.

🔹 What You'll Learn:

✔ Why burnout isn’t the end of the story 

✔ How to cultivate meaning, purpose, and resilience 

✔ What the “Reversible Cape” teaches us about healing 

✔ The power of language, presence, and gratitude in medicine 

✔ Strategies for transforming medical culture 

📌 Timestamps:

0:00 – Welcome & Guest Introduction 

2:24 – What is Positive Psychology? 

6:50 – Dr. Feingold's Journey into Medicine & Mental Health 

12:05 – Creating the PEERS Program 

18:40 – Using Character Strengths in Psychiatry 

24:15 – The Reversible Cape Model 

32:00 – Impacts on Patient Outcomes 

41:10 – Building Resilient Healthcare Teams 

47:20 – Hope, Healing, and Human Potential 

53:00 – Advice to Healthcare Leaders 

 

📚 Explore More:

🔗 https://jordynfeingold.com 

📘 *Choose Growth* by Dr. Jordyn Feingold & Scott Barry Kaufman

 

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🎤 Guest Introduction

Jordyn H. Feingold, MD, MAPP, MSCR is a psychiatrist, well-being researcher, positive psychology practitioner, working to bring the science of well-being to clinicians and patients everywhere. 

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she earned her BA in Health & Societies and her Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) and went on to receive her MD and a Master of Science in Clinical Research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2021, where she also completed her psychiatry residency in 2024. She is an active clinician working with adult patients as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Mount Sinai and in private practice, and since 2024, she has been completing a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork‑Presbyterian/Columbia and Cornell Universities, which she’ll complete in 2026. 

As a passionate advocate for clinician well‑being, Dr. Feingold has developed and taught various programs at the intersection of Positive Psychology and Clinical Medicine (Positive Medicine) designed to support resilience and reduce burnout among healthcare professionals. She is the co‑author (with Scott Barry Kaufman) of Choose Growth: A Workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear, and Self‑Doubt, and has contributed to dozens of academic works on the topics of posttraumatic growth, clinician resilience, the gut-brain axis, and more. 

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🧠 Key Quotes & Takeaways

💬 Memorable Quotes (with timestamps):

"We practice dissecting wellness just as we learn to dissect illness." — [00:16:32]

"You have to bring the intervention to where people are—during the workday, not after it." — [00:52:40]

"It’s not about being blindly optimistic. Hope means believing in a better future and your role in making it happen." — [00:48:00]

📌 Key Takeaways:

• Positive Psychology is not about ignoring suffering—it's about also cultivating well-being.
  
  
• Clinician well-being directly improves patient outcomes and organizational performance.
  
  
• The PEERS program offers a scalable model for training resilience and reflection among healthcare workers.
  
  
• Tools like character strengths, gratitude, and mindfulness can be integrated into both clinical practice and team culture.
  
  
• Leadership buy-in is crucial for building positive organizations in healthcare.