Garth Kroeker

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

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Evidence-based support for long-term psychotherapy

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I invite the interested reader to have a look at an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association , 300(13), pp. 1551-1565 (as ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Rates of Change - filling a milk jug

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Some symptoms or problems can improve within a day. Others could take a week or more. In mood and anxiety disorders, and in other struggles ...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

Managing Relationship Conflict

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This is no easy subject. So much depends on the specifics of the situation and of the relationship. And perhaps different people deal wit...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Scaled-up Structure of a Neuron

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I'm always interested in analogies & thought experiments. One of them last year was to consider the following: What would a brain c...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Financial Metaphor

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Managing your emotional life can be compared to managing finances. "Investments" need to be made. Investments of emotion, attachme...
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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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