Garth Kroeker

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

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Increasing Anxiety in Recent Decades

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Another question from a visitor: Shifts towards higher anxiety and neuroticism: Twenge** has noted an increase in anxiety and neuroticism in...

Intuition in Psychiatric Practice

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Another question from a visitor: Evidence-Based Medicine: Do you find that intuition has its place in practice of clinical psychiatry? Despi...
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Metaphors

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Psychologists Prescribing Antidepressants?

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Future of personalized antidepressants

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Another question from a visitor: Advances in psychiatrist medications: Holsboer has recently elaborated on the future of personalized antide...
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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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