Garth Kroeker

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

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Man's Search for Meaning

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Man's Search for Meaning , by Victor Frankl, is one the great books of the past century.  Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian psychiatr...
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Monday, March 8, 2010

Losing at the Olympics

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This subject has come up many times in conversation, over the past month. The comments go something like this: (referring to someone who...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Book Review: Mad, Bad and Sad

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Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present , by Lisa Appignanesi (2007) is quite a good history of...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Olympics & Psychiatry

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The Olympic games cost billions of dollars to prepare for, and to host. Therefore, it has been a subject of controversy, particularly becau...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Sleep, Hormones, and Obesity

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Here are some excellent references about the interaction between sleep, hormones, and obesity. They were contributed by a reader (thank you...
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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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