Garth Kroeker

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

Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Psychology of Happiness

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So-called "positive psychology" is, in my opinion, a very important evolving field. Surprisingly, it is a relatively new field, i...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Happiness and Economics

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I just finished reading an excellent book called Happiness: Lessons from a New Science , by Richard Layard (Penguin, 2005). His main points...
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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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