Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Navigating Chaotic Times

This is a sequel to previous posts dealing with some of the changes we are seeing in world events in the past months. The chaos we are see...

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Narcissistic & Antisocial Traits in Public Leaders: Part II

This is a sequel to my last post ( https://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/2024/09/narcissistic-antisocial-personality-in.html ) It is possible f...

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Narcissistic & Antisocial Personality in public figures: the role of mental health professionals

The norm in mental health practice has wisely been to stay out of politics for the most part, except when it comes to mental health advocacy...

Monday, April 22, 2024

"Spent" by Geoffrey Miller -- a discussion of evolutionary psychology

"Spent" is a good book by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, looking particularly at consumer behaviour, including purcha...

Education for gifted teens

I'm uncomfortable with the term "gifted" since it implies that some people have "gifts" while others do not. Really...

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About Me

GK: I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.

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