Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Spread of psychological phenomena in social networks

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Here is a link to the abstract of an interesting article by Fowler & Christakis, published in the British Medical Journal in December 2...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Positive Psychology (continued)

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This is a response to a reader's comment on my post about positive psychology: http://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/2009/10/positive-psychot...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Internet, Video Games, and TV: Addictions or Cognitive Enhancers?

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I'll introduce this post with my opinion on this issue: Almost any human activity can be addictive, in a harmful way. That is, the acti...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

"Positive Psychotherapy" (PPT) for depression

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This post is a continuation of my earlier post on the psychology of happiness. I'm trying to look at each of the references in more det...
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Mindfulness actually works

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So-called "mindfulness" techniques have been recommended in the treatment of a variety of problems, including chronic physical pai...
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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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