Garth Kroeker

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

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Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Monday, May 23, 2022

The Elephant in the Brain & The Folly of Fools

Two more books to recommend: The Folly of Fools (2011) by Robert Trivers and The Elephant in the Brain (2018) by Kevin Simler & Robi...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Religion

Well, of course, here's another subject that most of us have strong feelings about, one way or another. I realize it's a dicey issue...

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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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