Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Psychiatry & Dentistry

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There could obviously be psychiatric issues in dentistry, such as phobias.  A good dentist could be quite therapeutic in this regard. But ...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Psychiatry and Linguistics

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The history of spoken and written language is a very interesting field of study.  The manner in which languages evolve over time is similar,...
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Psychiatry and Economics

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I've alluded to the field of "behavioural economics" in other posts.  I think this is a very interesting extension of social a...

Psychiatry & Architecture

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This is the first in a series of posts in which I'd like to discuss figurative or literal comparisons and overlaps between psychiatry an...
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Making tasks fun improves motivation & self-control

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Juliano Laran and Chris Janiszewski recently published a study in Journal of Consumer Research (Vol. 37, electronically published Aug. 24, 2...
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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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