Garth Kroeker

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

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Therapeutic approaches to irritability

Irritability can be a challenging symptom, often present in a wide range of different clinical settings. Unipolar depression can present wi...

Monday, October 3, 2011

Parental behaviours associated with offspring personality traits

Johnson et al. have published an interesting article in the August 2011 edition of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (pp. 447-456) in which...

Friday, September 30, 2011

Pregabalin for generalized anxiety

There have been a variety of studies in the literature showing that pregabalin is effective for treating generalized anxiety. The latest ...

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Multi-dimensional nature of borderline personality symptom structure

Chmielewski et al. have published an article in the September 2011 edition of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry in which they show that b...

Thursday, August 18, 2011

"Anti-psychiatry"

I'm just bumping up this post, originally from July 2008, because there have been some new comments. There are a lot of strong opini...

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About Me

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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